Luke 1:79

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 And a way of peace they did not know.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • John 9:5 : 5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
  • Isa 59:8 : 8 A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou `art' with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.
  • Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed, 11 Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out, 12 Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase. 13 Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright `is' Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. 9 He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way. 10 All the paths of Jehovah `are' kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 Who `is' this -- the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I `am' Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.
  • Isa 48:22 : 22 There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is their pasture.
  • Isa 57:19-21 : 19 Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. 20 And the wicked `are' as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. 21 There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. 2 For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. 3 And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 And have not said, Where `is' Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, 29 take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'
  • John 1:9 : 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
  • John 12:46 : 46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-5 : 4 and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; 5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; 6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth; 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
  • Job 10:22 : 22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

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