Psalms 107:10

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

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,

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

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

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

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

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

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.

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

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.

Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

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.

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

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

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

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

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

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

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

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

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

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,

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

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

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

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.

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.’

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.

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:

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

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

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.

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.

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.

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

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.”

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

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.”

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.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

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.

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

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.

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.’