Genesis 1:17

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.”

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

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

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

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.”

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

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

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

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

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.

Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.

the moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

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.

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’

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

But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”