What does the Bible say about valley of shadow of death?
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The Bible teaches that even in the darkest and most death-like trials, God is present with His people, sovereign over their path, and able to lead them safely into His light. Psalm 23:4 grounds this confidence in the Shepherd's nearness: His rod and staff comfort His sheep. Job 10:21-22 and Jeremiah 2:6 portray such darkness as dreadful and humanly hopeless, yet Psalm 107:10, 14 declares that the Lord brings prisoners out of darkness and breaks their chains. Isaiah 9:2, fulfilled in Matthew 4:16, points to Christ as the great light shining on those dwelling in darkness. Believers therefore need not deny suffering, but may trust their faithful Shepherd through it.
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- Psalms 23:4 14 votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Jeremiah 2:6 7 votes
Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?
- Job 10:21-22 7 votes
[21] Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; [22] The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
- Isaiah 9:2 6 votes
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
- Amos 5:8 6 votes
Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
- Matthew 4:16 5 votes
The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."
- Psalms 44:19 5 votes
Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 23:1-6 5 votes
[1] > Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. [2] He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. [3] He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. [4] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. [5] You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. [6] Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
- Psalms 107:10 4 votes
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
- Psalms 107:14 3 votes
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder.
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