Luke 1:79 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷⁹ to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷⁹ To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷⁹ To shine upon and give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace. [Isa. 9:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷⁹ To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

Common English Bible

⁷⁹ to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide us on the path of peace.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷⁹ to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷⁹ To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Luke 1:79 Cross References

Job 10:22

the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Psalm 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

Psalm 107:14

he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 25:12

Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

Psalm 44:19

that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

Isaiah 42:16

And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:22

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 49:6

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 give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, ‘Come forth,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways, on all bare heights shall be their pasture;

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.”

John 1:9

The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world.

John 12:46

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Acts 10:36

You know the word which he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace they do not know.”

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light