God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

even the darkness is not dark to You.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to You.

Light is sweet,
and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

before the sun and the light are darkened,
and the moon and the stars,
and the clouds return after the rain;

Israel’s Light will become a fire,
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty.
I looked to the heavens,
and their light was gone.

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

Light is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

On that day they will roar over it,
like the roaring of the sea.
When one looks at the land,
there will be darkness and distress;
light will be obscured by clouds.

Then your light will appear like the dawn,
and your recovery will come quickly.
Your righteousness will go before you,
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.

and if you offer yourself to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted one,
then your light will shine in the darkness,
and your night will be like noonday.

When you make a decision, it will be carried out,
and light will shine on your ways.

Let it be known to the king that we went to the house of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being built with cut stones, and its beams are being set in the walls. This work is being done diligently and succeeding through the people’s efforts.

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.