Matthew 4:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The people who live in spiritual darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined for those who live in the land that is as dark as a grave.” Isaiah 9:1-2

Cross References

Isaiah 9:2

Those people lived in darkness, but they will see a great light. They lived in a place as dark as death, but a great light will shine on them.

Micah 7:8

I have fallen, but enemy, don’t laugh at me! I will get up again. I sit in darkness now, but the Lord will be a light for me.

Luke 2:32

He is a light to show your way to the other nations. And he will bring honor to your people Israel.”

Job 34:22

There is no place dark enough for evil people to hide from God.

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God. Praise him or he will bring darkness. Praise him before you fall on the dark hills. You people of Judah are hoping for light, but the Lord will turn the light into thick darkness. He will change it into the deepest gloom.

Job 10:22

that land of darkest night, of shadows and confusion, where even the light is darkness.’”

Job 3:5

I wish that bitter day had remained as dark as death, covered with the darkest clouds.

Psalm 44:19

But you crushed us in this home of jackals. You left us in this place as dark as death.

Isaiah 9:1

But there will be an end to the gloom those people suffered. In the past, people thought the land of Zebulun and Naphtali was not important. But later, that land will be honored—the land along the sea, the land east of the Jordan River, and Galilee where people from other nations live.