Psalms 18:28
For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
29For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4But for David's sake the 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 shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
Isaiah 2:11The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken 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 →