Isaiah 8:16
Good News Translation
You, my disciples, are to guard and preserve the messages that God has given me.

New Revised Standard Version
Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Contemporary English Version
My message and my teachings are to be sealed and given to my followers.

New American Bible
Bind up my testimony, seal the instruction with my disciples.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

bind up

Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold.

the testimony

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Deuteronomy 4:45 And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,

2 Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands, they said: God save the king.

John 3:32,33 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony. . . .

Hebrews 3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said:

1 John 5:9-12 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son. . . .

Revelation 19:10 And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to me: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

seal

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Revelation 5:1,5 And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals. . . .

Revelation 10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up the things which the seven thunders have spoken. And write them not.

among

Isaiah 54:13 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Psalm 25:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

Proverbs 8:8,9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. . . .

Daniel 12:9,10 And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time. . . .

Matthew 13:11 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

Mark 4:10,11,34 And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him the parable. . . .

Mark 10:10 And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give the hidden manna and will give him a white counter: and in the counter, a new name written, which no man knoweth but he that receiveth it.

Context
A Call to Fear God
15And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken. 16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.17And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.…
Cross References
Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

Isaiah 8:2
And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

Isaiah 8:20
To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Isaiah 29:11
And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.

Isaiah 29:12
And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold.

Isaiah 8:15
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