Isaiah 41:18 (ESV)
I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
A Desert Oasis
John Barrie Haste (English, 1931-2011)
Isaiah 41:17 (ESV)
When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the Lord will answer them;
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Diakoniearmen in de Buurkerk te Utrecht (The Charitable Poor in the Buurkerk church in Utrecht), 1880
Joseph Hoevenaar (Dutch, 1840-1926)
Isaiah 35:6-7 (ESV)
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
Photograph of The Crescent Lake, Western China
(c) Zhang Xiao for the New York Times
Psalm 23:1-3 (ESV)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Lying Down in Green Pastures
John Pototschnik (American)
Psalm 1:3 (ESV)
He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
Landscape with a River and Group of Trees, 1870
Károly Markó the Younger (Hungarian-Italian, 1822-1891)
Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
Arabs in the Desert at Dusk, 1911
Augustus Osborne Lamplough (English, 1877-1930)
Genesis 21:19 (GNV)
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water: so she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert, 1753
Claude-Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789)
Psalm 63:1 (ESV)
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Oasis in the Desert 1862
Painted originally by: Antal Ligeti
Revelation 22:5 (ESV)
And night will be no more.
They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
The Prologue and the Promise, 1983
Robert McCall (American, 1919-2010)
Revelation 21:23 (ESV)
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
12 Crystals of New Heaven & New Earth
Indie Hansen, 2024
https://medium.com/@indiehansen/12-crystals-of-new-heaven-new-earth-447409a83d0e
1 John 1:5-6 (ESV)
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
God is Light, 2024
Lourry Legarde
https://pixels.com/featured/god-is-light-lourry-legarde.html
Colossians 1:12-13 (ESV)
... giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
Landscape With the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1647
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Philippians 2:15 (ESV)
... that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
The Good Samaritan
A Painting in the Style of Diego Velazquez from Public Square magazine
1 Thessalonians 5:5 (ESV)
For you are all children of light, children of the day.
We are not of the night or of the darkness.
The Childhood of Christ, 1620
Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592-1656)
Ephesians 5:8 (GNV)
For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light.
Children of the Light, 2012
Joseph Brickey (1973-present)
2 Corinthians 4:6 (ESV)
For God, who said,
“Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Artwork by Douglas Bentley
Romans 13:12 (ESV)
The night is far gone; the day is at hand.
So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.
Within Sight of the Holy City
Illustration from an 1844 edition of John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
Henry Courtney Selous (English, 1803-1890)
John 8:12 (ESV)
“I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
“Ego Sum Lux Mundi” (I am the Light of the World)
Triptych by Raul Berzosa
https://raulberzosa.com/arte-sacro/
An explanation of the work is here: https://burning-lampstand.tumblr.com/post/99862788303/by-grace-of-god-triptych-titled-ego-sum-lux
John 1:2-5 (ESV)
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
In the Beginning was the Word John 1:1-14
Eva Koleva Timothy (Bulgarian-American)
Luke 1:78 (ESV)
“... because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
La Résurrection
Nicolas Bertin (French 1667-1736)
Isaiah 60:1 (ESV)
Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
and his glory will be seen upon you.
A Darkness Over the Earth
Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Matthew 4:16 (ESV)
The people dwelling in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death,
on them a light has dawned.
The Awakening of Christian, c. 1885
from Pilgrim's Progress
Henry Clarence Whaite (1828–1912)
Isaiah 49:6 (ESV)
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
I will make you as a light for the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Glorious Jerusalem
Yossi Bitton (Israeli, 1956-present)
Micah 7:8 (ESV)
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
Geghard Monastery, Armenia
Photograph by Rob Wilson
Psalm 27:1 (NKJV)
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
The Faithful Knight
Thomas Jones Barker (English, 1815-1882)