'Light' in the Bible

And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.

Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.

His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.

Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.

Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.

Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.

And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going down from what seemed to be the middle of his body I saw what was like fire, and there was a bright light shining round him.

Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;

And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.

And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;

And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.

Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.