Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;
And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction, then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
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