And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day [is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
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.
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.
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.
The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.
When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt.
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,
By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.
[There be] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
[A Psalm] of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
God [is] the LORD, which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.
NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.
In the light of the king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noon day:
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
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.
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
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