Isaiah 9:2

Thou shalt multiply the Goy (Nation), 1 and increase its simchah; 1 they joy before Thee according to the simchat baKatzir, 1 and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

In Context

1The people that walked in choshech 1 have seen an Ohr gadol; 1 they that dwell in the eretz tzalmavet, 1 upon them hath the Ohr dawned. 1

3For Thou hast broken the ol (yoke) of his burden, 1 and the mateh (staff) of his shoulder, 1 the shevet hanogesh (rod of the task master) of him, 1 as in the yom of Midyan. + 9:3 See Judg 7:25 1

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Cross References

Job 10:21Before I go from where I shall not return, 1 even to the Eretz Choshech V'Tzalmavet, 1

Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the Gey Tzalmavet (Valley of the Shadow of Death), 1 I will fear no rah (evil); 1 for Thou art with me; 1 Thy shevet (rod) and Thy staff they comfort me. 1

Psalms 107:14He brought them out of choshech and tzalmavet, 1 and broke apart their chains. 1

Isaiah 50:10Who among you that feareth Hashem, 1 that obeyeth the voice of His Eved, + 50:10 Moshiach 1 though he may have walked in chashekhim (darknesses), 1 with no gleam of light for himself, 1 let him trust B'Shem Hashem, 1 and lean upon Elohav. 1

Isaiah 60:19The shemesh shall be no more thy ohr yomam; 1 neither for brightness shall the yarei'ach give light unto thee; 1 but Hashem shall be unto thee an Ohr Olam, 1 and thy G-d thy tiferet. 1

Micah 7:8Don't joyously gloat over me, O mine enemy; 1 when I fall, I shall rise; 1 when I sit in choshech, Hashem shall be ohr unto me. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:2-8

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light… Read the whole commentary →

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