His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.
He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.
I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
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