Isaiah 9:2

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

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

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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

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

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

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.”

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.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

“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,

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

and I will give him the morning star.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

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

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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.

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

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.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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

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.”

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

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:

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

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.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.