2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, O Lord. And you, O Lord, will illuminate my darkness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And you will bring to salvation the poor people, and you will humble the exalted with your eyes.
30For in you, I will run girded. In my God, I will leap over the wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.
Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.
Psalms 112:4The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high above the heavens.
Isaiah 60:19The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon illuminate you. Instead, the Lord will be an everlasting light for you, and your God will be your glory.
Malachi 4:2But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →