Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Arise and shine: the light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises over you like the dawn.
KJV1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. 4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
A prophet speaking to Israel in crisis, full of promises of comfort and of a coming Savior.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
The night is nearly over and the day is near: a call to wake up and live now as people of the light.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Mary’s song when she visits Elizabeth: her whole self praises the Lord and rejoices in God her Savior.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Christians live between two comings: God’s grace has already appeared, and they look forward to Christ’s appearing in glory.
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Centuries before Jesus, Micah named the little town where Israel’s ruler would be born: Bethlehem (5:1 in some Catholic Bibles).