Matthew 4:16

God's Word

The people who lived in darkness have seen a bright light. A light has risen for those who live in a land overshadowed by death.”

Cross References

Job 10:22

to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I’ll never return.’ ”

Job 3:5

Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.

Job 34:22

There’s no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.

Psalm 44:19

Yet, you crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 9:1

But there will be no more gloom for the land that is in distress. God humbled the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali in earlier times. But in the future he will bring glory to the road by the sea, to the land across the Jordan River, to Galilee, where foreigners live.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in darkness will see a bright light. The light will shine on those who live in the land of death’s shadow.

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.

Amos 5:8

God made the ⌞constellations⌟ Pleiades and Orion. He turns deep darkness into dawn. He turns day into night. He calls for water from the sea to pour it over the face of the earth. His name is the Lord.

Micah 7:8

Don’t laugh at me, my enemies. Although I’ve fallen, I will get up. Although I sit in the dark, the Lord is my light.

Luke 2:32

He is a light that will reveal ⌞salvation⌟ to the nations and bring glory to your people Israel.”