⁴ It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

³¹ So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.

⁵ So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

³⁶ His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

⁶ May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

⁷ He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

⁷⁸ Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

⁷⁹ 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.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

⁷ And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

¹⁸ Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.

¹⁹ The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

²⁰ Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

³ And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

¹ Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

² In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.

³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

² My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants: