Luke 1:79

English Standard Version 2016

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Cross References

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.

Matthew 4:16

the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Ephesians 5:8

for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

John 12:46

I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 9:5

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

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

Psalm 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways; on all bare heights shall be their pasture;

John 1:9

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’

Isaiah 49:6

he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 42:16

And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace they have not known.”

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

Isaiah 48:22

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

Psalm 44:19

yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 25:12

Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Job 10:22

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Acts 10:36

As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),