¹⁷ Your life will be brighter than noonday;
its darkness^[a] will be like the morning.^(A)

⁶ making your righteousness shine like the dawn,
your justice like the noonday.^(A)

⁸ Then your light will appear like the dawn,
and your recovery will come quickly.^(A)
Your righteousness will go before you,^(B)
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.^(C)

¹⁰ and if you offer yourself^[a] to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted one,
then your light will shine in the darkness,^(A)
and your night will be like noonday.