Isaiah 8:16

Then shall those who seal themselves that they may not learn the law be made manifest.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

In Context

15Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.

17And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:45These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:

Isaiah 8:1And the Lord said to me, Take to thyself a volume of a great new book, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils; for it is near at hand.

Isaiah 29:11And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:10-16

Judah's Encouragement. ( b. c. 740.) 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A… Read the whole commentary →

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