Quotes About Light

She sees that her gain is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at night.

And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:

Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.

before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyriaís thorns and thistles.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;

The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.

I will make the sunís shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.í” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.