Matthew 4:16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the shadowland of death, light has dawned.

Cross References

Job 10:22

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it. May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.

Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future He will bring honor to the Way of the Sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; a light has dawned on those living in the land of darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but He brings darkest gloom and makes thick darkness.

Amos 5:8

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the earth — Yahweh is His name.

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will stand up; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to Your people Israel.