To 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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Gill's Exposition
To give light to them that sit in darkness,.... God's elect among the Jews, who were not only in a state of unregeneracy, which is a state of darkness, ignorance, and unbelief; but in the darkness of…
Barnes' Notes
To give light ... - See the notes at Mat 4:16. To guide our feet ... - The figure in these verses is taken from travelers, who, being overtaken by night, know not what to do, and who wait patiently…
We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened; in it he is said to prophesy (Luk 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying; for he foretold things to…
Cambridge Bible
in the shadow of death The Hebrew Tsalmaveth. Job 10:21; Job 38:17; Psa 23:4; Psa 107:10; Isa 9:2; Mat 4:16, &c.
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