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For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

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.’

Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

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

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

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

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

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

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

“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

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