Luke 1:79

To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, || To guide our feet to a way of peace.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

In Context

78Through the yearnings of our God, || In which the rising from on high looked on us,

80And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts until the day of his showing to Israel.

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Cross References

Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, || Death-shade—and no order, || And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”

Psalms 25:8Good and upright [is] YHWH, || Therefore He directs sinners in the way.

Psalms 44:19But You have struck us in a place of dragons, || And cover us over with death-shade.

Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, || Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

Proverbs 3:17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, || And all her paths [are] peace.

Isaiah 9:2The people who are walking in darkness || Have seen a great light, || Dwellers in a land of death-shade, || Light has shone on them.

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:68-80

The Song of Zacharias. 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his… Read the whole commentary →

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