Luke 1:79

New American Bible - revised edition

to shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Cross References

Job 10:22

The dark, disordered land where darkness is the only light.

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, blackness of day affright it!

Psalm 107:10

Some lived in darkness and gloom, imprisoned in misery and chains.

Psalm 107:14

He brought them forth from darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains asunder.

Psalm 23:4

Even 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 comfort me.

Psalm 25:12

Who is the one who fears the Lord? God shows him the way he should choose.

Psalm 44:19

Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace;

Proverbs 8:20

On the way of righteousness I walk, along the paths of justice,

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your God, teaching you how to prevail, leading you on the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:22

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

Isaiah 49:6

It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 49:9

To say to the prisoners: Come out! To those in darkness: Show yourselves! Along the roadways they shall find pasture, on every barren height shall their pastures be.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice on their paths; Their roads they have made crooked, no one who walks in them knows peace.

Isaiah 9:2

You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing; They rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest, as they exult when dividing the spoils.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?”

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand by the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old, “Which is the way to good?” and walk it; thus you will find rest for yourselves. But they said, “We will not walk it.”

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.”

Luke 2:32

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

John 1:9

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

John 12:46

I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.

John 8:12

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

John 9:5

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

Acts 10:36

You know the word [that] he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all,

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may obtain forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been consecrated by faith in me.’

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace they know not.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,