Matthew 4:16

New Century Version

These people who live in darkness will see a great light. They live in a place covered with the shadows of death, but a light will shine on them.”

Cross References

Job 10:22

the land of darkest night, from the land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is darkness.”

Job 3:5

Let darkness and gloom have that day. Let a cloud hide it. Let thick darkness cover its light.

Job 34:22

There is no dark place or deep shadow where those who do evil can hide from him.

Psalm 44:19

But you crushed us in this place where wild dogs live, and you covered us with deep darkness.

Isaiah 9:1

But suddenly there will be no more gloom for the land that suffered. In the past God made the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali hang their heads in shame, but in the future those lands will be made great. They will stretch from the road along the Mediterranean Sea to the land beyond the Jordan River and north to Galilee, the land of people who are not Israelites.

Isaiah 9:2

Before those people lived in darkness, but now they have seen a great light. They lived in a dark land, but a light has shined on them.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before you slip and fall on the dark hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it into thick darkness; he will change it into deep gloom.

Amos 5:8

God is the one who made the star groups Pleiades and Orion; he changes darkness into the morning light, and the day into dark night. He calls for the waters of the sea to pour out on the earth. The Lord is his name.

Micah 7:8

Enemy, don’t laugh at me. I have fallen, but I will get up again. I sit in the shadow of trouble now, but the Lord will be a light for me.

Luke 2:32

It is a light for the non-Jewish people to see and an honor for your people, the Israelites.”