622 verses about Light

and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold.

He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;

and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, 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.

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

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.