Job 38:12

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

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.

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

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.”

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

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

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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

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

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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

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.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

and I will give him the morning star.

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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;

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

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

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’ ”

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.

On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.

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

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

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

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

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

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.

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

He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.

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

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

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.”

Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

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

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

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:

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,