Psalms 18:28
For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
29For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For thou are my lamp, O LORD. And LORD will lighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David's sake LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
Job 29:3when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Psalms 132:17There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:21-29
Devout Thanksgivings; Devout Confidence 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in… Read the whole commentary →