Luke 1:79

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.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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.

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.’ ”

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

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

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.

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

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

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

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

“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,

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.

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

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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

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

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

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

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

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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

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

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

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.

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.

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

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

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 our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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 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.’

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

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,

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

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

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

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

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.”

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

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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.

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

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.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

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

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

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.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

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.”

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.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

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,

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.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

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

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

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.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,