Matthew 4:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The people which sat in darkness Saw great light; And to them which sat in the region and shadow of death Light is sprung up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The people who sat (dwelt enveloped) in darkness have seen a great Light, and for those who sat in the land and shadow of death Light has dawned.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ the people who lived in the dark have seen a great light, and a light has come upon those who lived in the region and in shadow of death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Matthew 4:16 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.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

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

Isaiah 9:1

But there will be no gloom for her that 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 will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

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 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Micah 7:8

Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.

Luke 2:32

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