'Brightness' in the Bible

“From the brightness before HimCoals of fire were kindled.

“If even the moon has no brightnessAnd the stars are not pure in His sight,

From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,Hailstones and coals of fire.

then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Therefore justice is far from us,And righteousness does not overtake us;We hope for light, but behold, darkness,For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

“Nations will come to your light,And kings to the brightness of your rising.

“No longer will you have the sun for light by day,Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;But you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,And your God for your glory.

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of a man; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of glowing metal.

Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the temple was filled with the cloud and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Before them the earth quakes,The heavens tremble,The sun and the moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

The sun and moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

Will not the day of the Lord be darkness instead of light,Even gloom with no brightness in it?

But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.