Psalms 139:9

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.’

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.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

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

“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

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.”

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

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

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

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.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

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.’ ”

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

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.

and I will give him the morning star.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

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

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

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

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

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 lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

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.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

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.”

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.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

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

He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

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.’

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,