9^aNevertheless, there will be no more gloom^w for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,^x but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

²The people walking in darkness^y

have seen a great light;^z

on those living in the land of deep darkness^a

a light has dawned.^b

³You have enlarged the nation^c

and increased their joy;^d

they rejoice before you

as people rejoice at the harvest,

as warriors rejoice

when dividing the plunder.^e

Read in Logos

Isaiah 9:2: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.

Footnotes

aIn Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2–21 is numbered 9:1–20.

Cross references

uSee Job 15:24
vSee ver 20; See Job 3:13; See Isa 5:30; See Joel 2:2; Mt 25:30; Rev 16:10
wSee Job 15:24
xSee 2 Ki 15:29
ySee Ps 82:5; See 107:10, 14; See Isa 8:20
zSee Ps 36:9; Isa 42:6; 49:6; 60:19; Mal 4:2; Eph 5:8
aSee Lk 1:79
b Isa 58:8; Mt 4:15–16*
cSee Job 12:23
dSee Ps 4:7; See Isa 25:9
eSee Ex 15:9; See Jos 22:8; See Ps 119:162