Isaiah 9:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light; those who dwelt in the land of intense darkness and the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined. [Isa. 42:6; Matt. 4:15, 16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

² The people walking in darkness have seen a great light. On those living in a pitch-dark land, light has dawned.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. A light has risen for the inhabitants of the region of the shadow of death.

Isaiah 9:2 Cross References

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.

Ephesians 5:8

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

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.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Luke 2:32

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

Isaiah 60:19

The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Psalm 107:10

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

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.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

Psalm 107:14

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

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Isaiah 9:1

But there shall be no gloom to 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 hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Amos 5:8

seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is his name;

Job 10:21

Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Judges 5:30

Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? a damsel, two damsels to every man; to Sisera a spoil of divers colours, a spoil of divers colours of embroidery, of divers colours of embroidery on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

Psalm 4:8

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep: For thou, LORD, alone makest me dwell in safety.