2 Samuel 23:4

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

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

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

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

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.