Luke 1:79

New King James Version

To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Cross References

Job 10:22

A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 3:5

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

Psalm 107:10

Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons—

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.

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 that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.

Psalm 44:19

But You have severely 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 traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,

Isaiah 42:16

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

Isaiah 42:7

To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from 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 by the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:22

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

Isaiah 49:6

Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a 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 give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

Isaiah 49:9

That You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ “They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither did they 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 pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?’

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; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

Luke 2:32

A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.”

John 1:9

That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

John 12:46

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

John 8:12

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

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Acts 10:36

The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all—

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, in order 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 the way of peace they have not known.”

Ephesians 5:8

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