Matthew 4:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 10:22

the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Psalm 44:19

yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.

Isaiah 9:1

But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, my enemies; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.

Luke 2:32

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