Lexicon :: Strong's H216 - 'ôr

My heart races, my strength leaves me,

and even the light of my eyes has faded.[fn]

Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.

Let them bring me to your holy mountain,

to your dwelling place.

For they did not take the land by their sword —

their arm did not bring them victory —

but by your right hand, your arm,

and the light of your face,

because you were favorable toward them.

he will go to the generation of his ancestors;

they will never see the light.

For you rescued me from death,

even my feet from stumbling,

to walk before God in the light of life.

He led them with a cloud by day

and with a fiery light throughout the night.

Happy are the people who know the joyful shout;

LORD, they walk in the light from your face.

Light dawns[fn][fn] for the righteous,

gladness for the upright in heart.

He wraps himself in light as if it were a robe,

spreading out the sky like a canopy,

Light shines in the darkness for the upright.

He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Your word is a lamp for my feet

and a light on my path.

He made the great lights:

His faithful love endures forever.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,

and the light around me will be night” —

Praise him, sun and moon;

praise him, all you shining stars.

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,

shining brighter and brighter until midday.

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,

and corrective discipline is the way to life.

The light of the righteous shines brightly,

but the lamp of the wicked is put out.

When a king’s face lights up, there is life;

his favor is like a cloud with spring rain.

And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.

Light is sweet,

and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

before the sun and the light are darkened,

and the moon and the stars,

and the clouds return after[fn] the rain;

House of Jacob,

come and let’s walk in the LORD’s light.

Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who substitute darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who substitute bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.

The people walking in darkness

have seen a great light;

a light has dawned

on those living in the land of darkness.

Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations[fn]

will not give their light.

The sun will be dark when it rises,

and the moon will not shine.

For the LORD said to me:

I will quietly look out from my place,

like shimmering heat in sunshine,

like a rain cloud in harvest heat.

The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter ​— ​like the light of seven days ​— ​on the day that the LORD bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.

“I am the LORD. I have called you

for a righteous purpose,[fn]

and I will hold you by your hand.

I will watch over you, and I will appoint you

to be a covenant for the people

and a light to the nations,

“I form light and create darkness,

I make success and create disaster;

I am the LORD, who does all these things.

he says,

“It is not enough for you to be my servant

raising up the tribes of Jacob

and restoring the protected ones of Israel.

I will also make you a light for the nations,

to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Pay attention to me, my people,

and listen to me, my nation;

for instruction will come from me,

and my justice for a light to the nations.

I will bring it about quickly.

“Then your light will appear like the dawn,

and your recovery will come quickly.

Your righteousness will go before you,

and the LORD’s glory will be your rear guard.

Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness does not reach us.

We hope for light, but there is darkness;

for brightness, but we live in the night.

Arise, shine, for your light has come,

and the glory of the LORD shines over you.[fn]

I looked at the earth,

and it was formless and empty.

I looked to the heavens,

and their light was gone.

Give glory to the LORD your God

before he brings darkness,

before your feet stumble

on the mountains at dusk.

You wait for light,

but he brings darkest gloom[fn]

and makes total darkness.

“I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them ​— ​the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

“This is what the LORD says:

The one who gives the sun for light by day,

the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar —

the LORD of Armies is his name:

He has driven me away and forced me to walk

in darkness instead of light.

“ ‘When I snuff you out,

I will cover the heavens

and darken their stars.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not give its light.

This is why I have used the prophets

to cut them down;[fn]

I have killed them with the words from my mouth.

My judgment strikes like lightning.[fn]

Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD!

What will the day of the LORD be for you?

It will be darkness and not light.