4 “Pay attention to me, O my people; and you national group of mine,+ to me give ear. For from me a law itself* will go forth,+ and my judicial decision I shall cause to repose even as a light to the peoples.*+

2 For, look! darkness+ itself will cover the earth, and thick gloom the national groups; but upon you Jehovah will shine forth, and upon you his own glory will be seen.+

8 for YOU were once darkness,+ but YOU are now light+ in connection with [the] Lord. Go on walking as children of light,

13 He delivered us from the authority+ of the darkness and transferred+ us into the kingdom+ of the Son of his love,+