2 The people that were walking in the darkness have seen a great light.+ As for those dwelling in the land of deep shadow,+ light itself has shone upon them.+

9 to say to the prisoners,*+ ‘Come out!’+ to those who are in the darkness,+ ‘Reveal yourselves!’+ By the ways they will pasture, and on all beaten paths* their pasturing will be.+

9 That is why justice has come to be far away from us, and righteousness does not catch up with us. We keep hoping for light, but, look! darkness; for brightness, [but] in continuous gloom we kept walking.+

16 the people sitting in darkness+ saw a great light,+ and as for those sitting in a region of deathly shadow, light+ rose+ upon them.”

18 to open their eyes,+ to turn them from darkness+ to light+ and from the authority of Satan+ to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins+ and an inheritance+ among those sanctified+ by [their] faith in me.’