Luke 1:79

Modern English Version

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

Job 10:22

a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.”

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Psalm 107:10

There were those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and irons,

Psalm 107:14

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

Psalm 23:4

Yea, 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.

Psalm 25:12

Who is the man who fears the Lord? He will teach him the way that he should choose.

Psalm 44:19

Yet You have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Proverbs 3:17

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

Proverbs 8:20

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

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

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.

Isaiah 48:22

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

Isaiah 49:6

He says, “It is a light thing that you should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light to the nations so that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, “Go forth,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.” They shall feed along the paths, and their pastures shall be in all desolate heights;

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man lived?”

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness saw great light. And on those who sat in the land of the shadow of death, light has dawned.”

Luke 2:32

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

John 1:9

The true Light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

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

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Acts 10:36

The word which He sent to the Israelites, preaching peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all,

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Romans 3:17

and they do not know the way of peace.”

Ephesians 5:8

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —