Matthew 4:16

Modern English Version

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.”

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.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

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

Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time He contemptuously treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Amos 5:8

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into dawn and darkens the day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth— the Lord is His name,

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Although I have fallen, I will rise; although I dwell in darkness, the Lord is my light.

Luke 2:32

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