79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 67-80)We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened ; in it he is said to prophesy (Luke 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying ; for he foretold things to come concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, to which all the prophets bear witness. Observe, I. How he was qualified for this: He was filled with the Holy Ghost , was endued with more than ordinar…
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