Job 18:6

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

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

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.

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

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

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

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

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

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.

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

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

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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.

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

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.”

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

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

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.

The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more:

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

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

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

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

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

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.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

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.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.