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And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

…to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.

…is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

…when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

…if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

…to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?