2 Samuel 22:29
For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.
30For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
Psalms 18:28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
Psalms 84:11For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
Psalms 112:4To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.
Isaiah 60:19Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.
Malachi 4:2But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like 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 →