Matthew 4:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

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.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

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

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.

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 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains; and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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;

Micah 7:8

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Luke 2:32

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