Matthew 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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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.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Ps 107:10-14 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations; 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us, 79 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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    1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

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    77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

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    31 which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;

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    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

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