622 verses about Light

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;

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

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

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

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!

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

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.

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.

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

“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;

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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.

that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.