Proverbs 13:9

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

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.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

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

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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

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

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

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 the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

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;

However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

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.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

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

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

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.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

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.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

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

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

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

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

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

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.

For the day is near, even Yahweh’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

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

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

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.”

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

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:

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

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.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

“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?

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

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

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

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

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

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

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’