Luke 1:79

To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

78Because of the yearning compassion of the mercy of our God, wherein shall visit us a day-dawn from on high,—

80And, the child, went on growing, and being strengthened in spirit, and was in the deserts, until the day he was pointed out unto Israel.

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Cross References

Job 10:22A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

Psalms 25:8Good and upright, is Yahweh, For this cause, will he direct sinners into the way.

Psalms 44:19That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Psalms 107:10The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;

Proverbs 3:17Her ways, are ways of pleasantness, and, all her paths, are peace;

Isaiah 9:2the people who were walking in darkness, Have seen a great light,—The dwellers in a land death-shadowed, A light, hath shined upon 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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