Isaiah 9:2

Some day, it will be as though [MET] the people who walked in darkness will see a great light. A great light will shine on those who live in a land where they have great troubles/distress.

Translation for Translators

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

1However, those in Judah who have been distressed/worried will not continue to suffer. Previously, Yahweh humbled the people in the land where the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali live. But in the future he will honor the people who live in that Galilee region, along the road between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, where many foreigners live.

3Yahweh, you will cause us people in Israel to rejoice; we will become very happy. We will rejoice about what you have done like [SIM] people rejoice when they harvest their crops, or like soldiers rejoice when they divide up among themselves the things that they have captured in a battle.

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Cross References

Job 10:21before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],

Psalms 23:4Even when I am walking through very dangerous dark ravines where I might be killed, I will not be afraid of anything because you are with me. You protect me like a shepherd protects his sheep. He uses his club and his walking stick to protect them from being attacked by wild animals.

Psalms 107:14He broke the chains that were on their hands and feet; and brought them out of those very dark prisons.

Isaiah 50:10If you revere Yahweh and do what his servant tells you to do, even if you are ◄walking in darkness/enduring suffering►, and it seems that [MET] there is no light, trust in Yahweh your God [DOU] to help you.

Isaiah 60:19And you will no longer need the sun and moon to give you light, because I, Yahweh, will give you more light than the sun and moon; I will be a glorious light for you forever.

Micah 7:8You who are our enemies, do not gloat/rejoice about what has happened to us, because even if we have experienced disasters, those disasters will end and we will be restored. Even if it is as though we are sitting in the darkness, Yahweh will be our light.

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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