Luke 1:79

Catholic Public Domain Version

to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace."

Cross References

Job 10:22

a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.

Psalm 107:10

Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.

Psalm 107:14

In God, we will act virtuously, and he will bring our enemies to nothing.

Psalm 23:4

The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

Psalm 25:12

My foot has stood firm in the straight path. In the churches, I will bless you, O Lord.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceful.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,

Isaiah 42:16

And I will lead the blind along a way which they do not know. And I will cause them to walk along paths with which they were unfamiliar. I will turn darkness into light before them, and crooked into straight. These things I have done for them. For I have not abandoned them.

Isaiah 42:7

so that you may open the eyes of the blind, and lead out the prisoner from confinement and those sitting in darkness from the house of incarceration.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your God, who teaches you beneficial things, who guides you in the way that you walk.

Isaiah 48:22

"There is no peace for the impious," says the Lord.

Isaiah 49:6

and so he has said: "It is a small thing that you should be my servant so as to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and so as to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have offered you as a light for the Gentiles, so that you may be my salvation, even to the furthest regions of the earth."

Isaiah 49:9

so that you would say to those who are bound, "Go forth!" and to those who are in darkness, "Be released!" They will pasture along the roads, and their pastures will be in every open place.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.

Isaiah 9:2

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.

Jeremiah 2:6

And they have not said: 'Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?'

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: "Stand above the ways, and see and ask, about the ancient paths, as to which is the good way, and then walk in it. And you will find refreshment for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk.'

Matthew 4:16

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."

Luke 2:32

the light of revelation to the nations and the glory of your people Israel."

John 1:9

The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world.

John 12:46

I have arrived as a light to the world, so that all who believe in me might not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me does not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Acts 10:36

God sent the Word to the sons of Israel, announcing the peace through Jesus Christ, for he is the Lord of all.

Acts 26:18

in order to open their eyes, so that they may be converted from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive the remission of sins and a place among the saints, through the faith that is in me.'

Romans 3:17

And the way of peace they have not known.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.