Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his children.
In the light of the king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
But to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.
[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is] this day.
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find [it]?
When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not.
And now for a little space grace hath been [showed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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