Psalms 13:3

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

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

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

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

“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,

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

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.

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.”

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

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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.”

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.’ ”

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

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

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

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

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.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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.

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

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.

They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

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.

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

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

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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

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

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

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

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.”

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.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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.

But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

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

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

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

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

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

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

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

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

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

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.