Isaiah 9:1-2

New Living Translation

Hope in the Messiah

9 ^[a]Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory.

²^[b]The people who walk in darkness
will see a great light.
For those who live in a land of deep darkness,^[c]
a light will shine.

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Footnotes

9:1 Verse 9:1 is numbered 8:23 in Hebrew text.
9:2a Verses 9:2-21 are numbered 9:1-20 in Hebrew text.
9:2b Greek version reads a land where death casts its shadow. Compare Matt 4:16.

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