Luke 1:79 - Revised Version 1885

⁷⁹ To shine upon them that sit in darkness and 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

A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; A land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

Psalm 107:10

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron;

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bands in sunder.

Psalm 23:4

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

Psalm 25:12

What man is he that feareth the LORD? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose.

Psalm 44:19

That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

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 midst of the paths of judgement:

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 49:6

yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:9

saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgement in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

Isaiah 9:2

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt; that 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 dwelt?

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

Matthew 4:16

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

Luke 2:32

A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy people Israel.

John 1:9

There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.

John 12:46

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 9:5

When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Acts 10:36

The word which he sent unto the children of Israel, preaching good tidings 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 unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

Romans 3:17

And the way of peace have they not known:

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light