a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to Your people Israel.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of darkness, a light has dawned.

in order to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, [and] those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on paths they have not known. I will turn darkness to light in front of them, and rough places into level ground. This is what I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

He says, "It is not enough for you to be My servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be My salvation to the ends of the earth."

saying to the prisoners: Come out, and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves. They will feed along the pathways, and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD shines over you.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your radiance.

The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the shadowland of death, light has dawned.

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: "I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life."

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

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

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

But you, brothers, are not in the dark, so that this day would overtake you like a thief.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We're not of the night or of darkness.

Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it. May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

[It is] a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.

Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear [no] danger, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff-- they comfort me.

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.

Others sat in darkness and gloom-- prisoners in cruel chains--

He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

They stopped asking: Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?

The LORD is good and upright; therefore He shows sinners the way.

All the LORD's ways [show] faithful love and truth to those who keep His covenant and decrees.

Faithful love and truth will join together; righteousness and peace will embrace.

Also, the LORD will provide what is good, and our land will yield its crops.

Her ways are pleasant, and all her paths, peaceful.

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

This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for [your] benefit, who leads you in the way you should go.

"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

creating words of praise." The LORD says, "Peace, peace to the one who is far or near, and I will heal him.

There is no peace for the wicked," says my God.

They have not known the path of peace, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks on them will know peace.

This is what the LORD says: Stand by the roadways and look. Ask about the ancient paths: Which is the way to what is good? Then take it and find rest for yourselves. But they protested: We won't!

"Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.

and the path of peace they have not known.