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10 Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
    prisoners in misery and in irons,(A)

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10 Some sat in darkness,(A) in utter darkness,
    prisoners suffering(B) in iron chains,(C)

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79 to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into the way of peace.”(A)

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79 to shine on those living in darkness
    and in the shadow of death,(A)
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”(B)

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16 the people who sat in darkness
    have seen a great light,
and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death
    light has dawned.”(A)

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16 the people living in darkness
    have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death
    a light has dawned.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:16 Isaiah 9:1,2

    to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
    from the prison those who sit in darkness.(A)

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to open eyes that are blind,(A)
    to free(B) captives from prison(C)
    and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.(D)

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20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.(A) 21 So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.(B)

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20 When you were slaves to sin,(A) you were free from the control of righteousness.(B) 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!(C)

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13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(A)

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13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(A)

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Penitence and Trust in God

Do not rejoice over me, my enemies;[a]
    when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be a light to me.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.8 Heb enemy

Israel Will Rise

Do not gloat over me,(A) my enemy!
    Though I have fallen, I will rise.(B)
Though I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be my light.(C)

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he has made me sit in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.(A)

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;(B)

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He has made me dwell in darkness
    like those long dead.(A)

He has walled me in so I cannot escape;(B)
    he has weighed me down with chains.(C)

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18 His feet were hurt with fetters;
    his neck was put in a collar of iron;(A)

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18 They bruised his feet with shackles,(A)
    his neck was put in irons,

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And if they are bound in fetters
    and caught in the cords of affliction,
then he declares to them their work
    and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.(A)

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But if people are bound in chains,(A)
    held fast by cords of affliction,(B)
he tells them what they have done—
    that they have sinned arrogantly.(C)

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Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds settle upon it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.(A)

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May gloom and utter darkness(A) claim it once more;
    may a cloud settle over it;
    may blackness overwhelm it.

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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A) 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(B)

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23 During that long period,(A) the king of Egypt died.(B) The Israelites groaned in their slavery(C) and cried out, and their cry(D) for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered(E) his covenant(F) with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

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11 Therefore the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive in manacles, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.(A)

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11 So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner,(A) put a hook(B) in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles(C) and took him to Babylon.

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