Matthew 4:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them.”

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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 as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.”

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death buy it back, let a cloud dwell on it, let all that blackens the day frighten it.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of wickedness hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 9:1

But there is no gloom upon her who is distressed, as when at first He humbled the land of Zeḇulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yardĕn, in Galil of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who were walking in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has shone.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give esteem to יהוה your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness.

Amos 5:8

He who made Kimah and Kesil, and who turns the shadow of death into morning and darkened day into night, who is calling for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth – יהוה is His Name –

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. When I have fallen I have risen, when I sit in darkness יהוה is a light to me.

Luke 2:32

a light for the unveiling of the nations, and the esteem of Your people Yisra’ĕl.”