Psalms 18:28
\18:27\For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
29\18:28\You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.
1 Kings 15:4But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;
Job 29:3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
Psalms 132:17There I will make the horn of David fertile: I have made ready a light for my king.
Isaiah 2:11The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
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 →