Matthew 4:16

New English Translation

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”

Cross References

Job 10:22

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Isaiah 9:1

(8:23) The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2

(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

Micah 7:8

My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

Luke 2:32

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