APPENDIX
TWO
In-Depth Study: Light
Verse
The Legend:
Bolded
words are those that refer to light;
when the word light is unavailable,
alternatives are;
enlighten, lamp, glow, bright, sun,
ray, fiery, day,
and morning
star
Italicized words are those
that refer to the dark;
when the word dark is unavailable,
alternatives are;
darkness, death, night, snuffed out,
blinded, and
benight
***
However Yahweh would
not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with
David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children
always.
2 Chronicles 21:7.
(WEB).
***
Many say, "Who will
show us any good?"
Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on
us.
Psalms
4:6.
***
Behold, and answer
me, Yahweh, my God.
Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; …
Psalms
13:3.
***
Be Thou my sun, and Thou my
shield,
My soul in safety
keep;
Make haste before
mine eyes are sealed
In death's relentless
sleep.
Psalms 13:3, Isaac
Watts Poetic Interpretation of the
Psalms (PIP).
***
For you will light my lamp,
Yahweh.
My God will light up my darkness.
Psalms 18:28
(WEB).
***
Yahweh's precepts
are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the
eyes.
Psalms
19:8.
***
I love the volumes
of Thy Word;
What light and joy those leaves
afford
To souls benighted and
distress!
Thy precepts guide
my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my
feet to stray,
Thy promise leads my heart to
rest.
Psalms 19:8, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
Yahweh is my light and my
salvation.
Whom shall I
fear?
Yahweh is the
strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be
afraid?
Psalms 27:1
(WEB).
***
The Lord of glory is
my light,
And my salvation
too;
God is my strength,
nor will I fear
What all my foes can
do.
Psalms 27:1, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
For with you is the
spring of life.
In your light shall we see light.
Psalms 36:9
(WEB).
***
Life, like a
fountain rich and free,
Springs from the
presence of the Lord;
And in Thy light our souls shall
see
The glories promised
in Thy Word.
Psalms 36:9, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
My heart
throbs.
My strength fails
me.
As for the light of my eyes, it has also left
me.
Psalms 38:10
(WEB).
***
Oh, send out your light and your
truth.
Let them lead
me.
Let them bring me to your holy
hill,
To your
tents.
Psalms
43:3.
***
For they didn't get
the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save
them;
but your right hand,
and your arm, and the light of your
face,
because you were favorable to
them.
Psalms
44:3.
***
Don't be afraid when
a man is made rich,
when the glory of his house is
increased.
For when he dies he
shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after
him.
Though while he
lived he blessed his soul—
and men praise you when you do well
for yourself—
he shall go to the generation of his
fathers.
They shall never see the light.
A man who has riches
without understanding,
is like the animals that
perish.
Psalms
49:16–20.
***
For you have
delivered my soul from death,
and prevented my feet from
falling,
that I may walk before God in the light of the
living.
Psalms
56:13.
***
Thou hast secured my
soul from death,
O set Thy pris'ner
free,
That heart and hand,
and life and breath
May be employed for
Thee.
Psalms 56:13, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
You are resplendent
with light, more majestic than
mountains rich with game.
Psalms 76:4
(KJV).
***
Blessed are the
people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence,
Yahweh.
Psalms 89:15
(WEB).
***
Blest are the souls
that hear and know
The Gospel's joyful
sound;
Peace shall attend
the path they go,
And light their steps
surround.
Psalms 89:15, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
You have set our
iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your
presence.
Psalms 90:8
(WEB).
***
Light is sown for the
righteous,
and gladness for the upright in
heart.
Psalms
97:11.
***
Immortal light and joys
unknown
Are for the saints
in darkness
sown;
Those glorious seeds
shall spring and rise,
And the bright
harvest bless our eyes.
Psalms 97:11, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
Bless Yahweh, my
soul.
Yahweh, my God, you are very
great.
You are clothed with honor and
majesty.
He covers himself
with light as with a
garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a
curtain.
Psalms 104:1–2
(WEB).
***
My soul, thy great
Creator praise:
When clothed in His
celestial rays
He in full majesty
appears,
And, like a robe,
His glory wears.
Psalms 104:1, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
The heav'ns are for
His curtains,
Th' unfathomed deep
He makes His bed;
Clouds are His
chariot, when he flies
On winged storms
across the skies.
Psalms
104:1–2.
***
Egypt was glad when
they departed,
for the fear of them had fallen on
them.
He spread a cloud
for a covering,
fire to give light in the night.
Psalms 105:38–39
(WEB).
***
The Lord Himself
chose Israel's way,
And marked their journeys
right,
Gave them a leading
cloud by day,
A fiery guide by
night.
Psalms 105:38–39,
Isaac Watts (PIP).
***
Light dawns in the darkness for the
upright,
gracious, merciful, and
righteous.
Psalms 112:4
(WEB).
***
When times grow
dark, and tidings spread
That fill his
neighbors round with dread,
His heart is armed
against the fear,
For God with all His
power is there.
Psalms 112:4, Isaac
Watts (PIP).
***
Yahweh is God, and
he has given us light.
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even
to the horns of the altar.
Psalms 118:27
(WEB).
***
Your word is a lamp
to my feet,
and a light for my
path.
Psalms
119:105.
***
'Tis like the sun, a
heav'nly light,
That guides us all the
day;
And through the
dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our
way.
Psalms 119:105,
Isaac Watts (PIP).
***
The entrance of your
words gives light.
It gives understanding to the
simple.
Psalms 119:130
(WEB).
***
When once it enters
to the mind,
It spreads such light
abroad,
The simple souls
instruction find,
And raise their thoughts to
God.
Psalms 119:130,
Isaac Watts (PIP).
***
Yahweh, you have
searched me,
and you know
me.
You know my sitting
down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from
afar.
You search out my
path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my
ways.
For there is not a
word on my tongue,
but, behold, Yahweh, you know it
altogether.
You hem me in behind
and before.
You laid your hand on
me.
This knowledge is
beyond me.
It's
lofty.
I can't attain
it.
Where could I go
from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your
presence?
If I ascend up into
heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold,
you are there!
If I take the wings
of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of
the sea;
Even there your hand
will lead me,
and your right hand will hold
me.
If I say, "Surely
the darkness will overwhelm
me;
the light around me will be night";
even the darkness doesn't hide from
you,
but the night shines as the
day.
The darkness is like light to
you.
Psalms 139:1–12
(WEB).
***
The All-Seeing
God
Lord, Thou has
searched and seen me through,
Thy eye commands with piercing
view
My rising and my resting
hours,
My heart and flesh with all their
powers.
My thoughts,
before they are my own,
Are to my God distinctly
known;
He knows the words I mean to
speak
Ere from my op'ning lips they
break.
Within Thy
circling power I stand;
On every side I find Thy
hand:
Awake, asleep, at home,
abroad,
I am surrounded still with
God.
Amazing knowledge,
vast and great!
What large extent! what lofty
height!
My soul, with all the powers I
boast,
Is in the boundless prospect
lost.
Could I so false,
so faithless prove,
To quit Thy service and Thy
love,
Where, Lord, could I Thy presence
shun,
Or from thy wondrous glory run?
If up to heav'n I
take my flight,
'Tis there Thou dwell'st enthroned
in light,
Or dive to hell, there vengeance
reigns,
And Satan groans beneath thy
chains.
If mounted on a
morning ray,
I fly beyond the western
sea,
Thy swifter hand would first
arrive,
And there arrest Thy
fugitive.
Or should I try to
shun Thy sight
Beneath the spreading veil of light,
One glance of Thine, one piercing ray,
Would kindle darkness into day.
Midnight and noon
in this agree,
Great God, they're both alike to
Thee:
Not death can hide what Thy will spy, [… Thou will spy,—jce. poetic
license]
And hell lies naked to His eye.
[…Thine eye.—jce. (second person possessive)]
Psalms 139:1–12, Isaac Watts
(PIP).
***
But the path of the
righteous is like the dawning light,
that shines more and more until the
perfect day.
Proverbs 4:18
(WEB).
***
The light of the righteous shines
brightly,
but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed
out.
Proverbs
13:9.
***
Truly the light is
sweet,
and a pleasant thing it is for the
eyes to see the sun.
Ecclesiastes
11:7.
***
House of Jacob,
come, and let us walk in the light
of Yahweh.
Isaiah
2:5.
***
Woe to those who
call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
who put bitter for
sweet,
and sweet for
bitter!
Isaiah
5:20.
***
"The people who
walked in darkness have seen a great
light.
Those who lived in the land of the
shadow of death, on them the light has
shined.
Isaiah
9:2.
***
The light of Israel will be for a fire, and
his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day.
Isaiah
10:17.
***
"I, Yahweh, have
called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and
make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
…"
Isaiah
42:6.
***
"I will bring the
blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't
know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places
straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake
them."
Isaiah
42:16.
***
… yes, he says, "It
is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of
Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be
my salvation to the end of the earth."
Isaiah
49:6.
***
Who is among you who
fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of
Yahweh, and rely on his God.
Isaiah
50:10.
***
"Attend to me, my people; and give
ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my
justice for a light of the
peoples."
Isaiah
51:4.
***
After the suffering
of his soul, he will see the light
and be satisfied.
My righteous servant
will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their
iniquities.
Isaiah
53:11.
***
"Then your light shall break forth as the morning,
and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go
before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear
guard.
"Then you shall
call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.'
"If you take away
from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking
wickedly; and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then your light shall rise in
darkness, and your obscurity be as
the noonday."
Isaiah
58:8–10.
***
Therefore is justice
far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in
obscurity.
Isaiah
59:9.
***
"Arise, shine; for
your light has come, and the glory
of Yahweh is risen on you. For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and
gross darkness the peoples; but
Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. Nations shall come
to your light, and kings to the
brightness of your rising."
Isaiah
60:1–3.
***
"The sun shall be no
more your light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light
to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. Your
sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh
will be your everlasting light, and
the days of your mourning shall be ended."
Isaiah
60:19–20.
***
Give glory to Yahweh
your God, before he causes darkness,
and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for
light, he turns it into the shadow
of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Jeremiah
13:16.
***
He [my enemy—jce]
has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Lamentations
3:2.
***
Above the expanse
that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a
sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the
appearance of a man on it above. I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of
fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from
the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and there was brightness
around him. As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of
rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my
face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
Ezekiel
1:26–28.
***
He reveals the deep
and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with
him.
Daniel
2:22.
***
Don't rejoice
against me, my enemy.
When I fall, I will
arise.
When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to
me.
I will bear the
indignation of Yahweh,
because I have sinned against
him,
until he pleads my case, and
executes judgment for me.
He will bring me forth to the light.
I will see his
righteousness.
Micah
7:8.
***
Leaving Nazareth, he
came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and
Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying,
"The land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali,
toward the sea, beyond the
Jordan,
Galilee of the
Gentiles,
the people who sat
in darkness saw a great light,
to those who sat in the region and
shadow of death,
to them light has
dawned."
Matthew
4:13–16.
***
"You are the light of the world. A city located on a
hill can't be hidden. Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a
measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
Even so, let your light shine before
men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in
heaven."
Matthew
5:14–16.
***
"The lamp of the
body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of
light. But if your eye is evil, your
whole body will be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in
you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"
Matthew
6:22–23.
***
He was transfigured
before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as
the light.
Matthew
17:2.
***
"Now you are
releasing your servant, Master,
according to your word, in
peace;
for my eyes have
seen your salvation,
which you have prepared before the
face of all peoples;
a light for revelation to the
nations,
and the glory of your people
Israel."
Luke
2:29–32.
***
"No one lights a
lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a
stand, so that those who come in can see the light."
Luke
8:16.
***
"No one, when he has
lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those
who come in may see the light."
Luke
11:33.
***
"No one, when he has
lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a
stand, that those who enter in may see the light."
Luke
16:8.
***
In him was life, and
the life was the light of men. The
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. There came
a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came as a witness, that he
might testify about the light, that
all might believe through him. He was not the light, but was sent that he might
testify about the light. The true light that enlightens everyone was
coming into the world.
John
1:4–8.
***
"This is the
judgment, that the light has come
into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For
everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed,
that they have been done in God."
John
3:19–21.
***
He was the burning
and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John
5:35.
***
Again, therefore,
Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me
will not walk in the darkness, but
will have the light of
life."
John
8:12.
***
"While I am in the
world, I am the light of the
world."
John
9:5.
***
Jesus answered,
"Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't
stumble, because he sees the light
of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in
him."
John
11:9–10.
***
Jesus therefore said
to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have
the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who
walks in the darkness doesn't know
where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of
light." Jesus said these things, and
he departed and hid himself from them.
John
12:35–38.
***
"I have come as a light into the world, that whoever
believes in me may not remain in the darkness."
John
12:46.
***
As he traveled, it
happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. He
fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me?"
He said, "Who are you,
Lord?"
The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you
are persecuting.
But rise up, and
enter into the city, and you will be told what you must
do."
Acts
9:3–6.
***
"For so has the Lord
commanded us, saying,
'I have set you as a
light for the
Gentiles,
that you should bring salvation to
the uttermost parts of the earth. ' "
Acts
13:47.
***
"Whereupon as I
traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around
me and those who traveled with me. When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard
a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads. ' " [A goad is a
pointed rod (spear) used to urge on an animal.—jce]
"I said, 'Who are
you, Lord?'
"He said, 'I am
Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have
appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of
the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;
delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to
open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to
God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who
are sanctified by faith in me. ' "
Acts
26:12–18.
***
"… how the Christ
must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these[, his own—jce.]
people and to the Gentiles."
Acts
26:23.
***
… and are confident
that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness.
Romans
2:19.
***
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off
the works of darkness, and let's put
on the armor of light.
Romans
13:12.
***
Therefore judge
nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the
hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
1 Corinthians
4:5.
***
Even if our Good
News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; in whom the
god of this world has blinded the
minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. For we don't preach
ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus'
sake; seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians
4:4.
***
Don't be unequally
yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or
what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Corinthians
6:14.
***
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of
light, for the fruit of the Spirit
is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well pleasing to
the Lord. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is
light. Therefore he says, "Awake,
you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on
you."
Ephesians
5:8–14.
***
… giving thanks to
the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in
light; who delivered us out of the
power of darkness, and translated us
into the Kingdom of the Son of his love.
Colossians
1:12–13.
***
You are all children
of light, and children of the day.
We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness.
1 Thessalonians
5:5.
***
… who alone has
immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can
see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
1 Timothy
6:16.
***
… but has now been
revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality
to light through the Good
News.
2 Timothy
1:10.
***
But remember the
former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great
struggle with sufferings.
Hebrews
10:32.
***
Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation,
nor turning shadow.
James
1:17.
***
But you are a chosen
race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that
you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: who in time past were no people,
but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy.
1 Peter
2:9–10.
***
We have the more
sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the
morning star arises in your hearts:
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private
interpretation.
2 Peter
1:19.
***
This is the message
which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the
truth. But if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us
from all sin.
1 John
1:5–7.
***
Again, I write a new
commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true
light already shines. He who says he
is in the light and hates his
brother, is in the darkness even
until now. He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for
stumbling in him.
1 John
2:8–10.
***
"He carried me away
in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone,
as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal."
Revelation
21:10–11.
***
The city has no need
for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God
illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the
glory and honor of the nations into it.
Revelation
21:23–24.
***
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate
them. They will reign forever and ever.
Revelation
22:5.
