622 verses about Light

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

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.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

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.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings the wind out of his treasuries;

To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

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.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;