Luke 1:79

World English Bible (2000)

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
  • John 9:5 : 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
  • Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
  • Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. 12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase. 13 Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. A Prayer by David.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. 10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
  • Isa 48:22 : 22 "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
  • Isa 57:19-21 : 19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near," says Yahweh; "and I will heal them." 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 "Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you. 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. 3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel."
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-5 : 4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

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