diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 26bffd9..5091b22 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "plugins/history-substring-search/external"]
 	path = plugins/history-substring-search/external
 	url = https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search.git
+[submodule "plugins/syntax-highlighting/external"]
+	path = plugins/syntax-highlighting/external
+	url = https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
diff --git a/plugins/syntax-highlighting/external b/plugins/syntax-highlighting/external
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..bb0d575
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/syntax-highlighting/external
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit bb0d575942760fe483790fe878ea43b1f781e2ca
diff --git a/plugins/syntax-highlighting/init.zsh b/plugins/syntax-highlighting/init.zsh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b8e751
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/syntax-highlighting/init.zsh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#
+# Integrates zsh-syntax-highlighting into Oh My Zsh.
+#
+# Authors:
+#   Sorin Ionescu <sorin.ionescu@gmail.com>
+#
+
+if zstyle -t ':omz:plugin:syntax-highlighting' color; then
+  source "${0:h}/external/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh"
+  ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS=(main brackets pattern cursor)
+fi
+