Luka 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Çalışma Notu
Study Note
Zechariah's Benedictus describes the Messiah as coming 'to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.' The imagery conflates Isaiah 9:2 ('a great light'), Isaiah 42:7 ('to open blind eyes'), and Numbers 6:26's Aaronic blessing of peace, presenting John the Baptist's ministry as the dawn-herald of this messianic illumination. The 'shadow of death' (skiā thanatou) translates the Hebrew 'tsalmawet' of Psalm 107:10 and 14, where prisoners in darkness and chains are delivered by the Lord — a corporate image that Zechariah now applies to the whole people awaiting liberation. Luke 2:32 takes up the same light-to-the-Gentiles theme in Simeon's Nunc Dimittis, confirming that illumination of the nations is central to Luke's programmatic christology.
Diğer Çeviriler
To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
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Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;