9 ⁽²⁾ The people living in darkness
have seen a great light;
upon those living in the land that lies
in the shadow of death, light has dawned.
^2 (3) You have enlarged the nation
and increased their joy;
they rejoice in your presence
as if rejoicing at harvest time,
the way men rejoice
when dividing up the spoil.
^3 (4) For the yoke that weighed them down,
the bar across their shoulders,
and their driver’s goad
you have broken as on the day of Midyan[’s defeat].