Psalms 18:29
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
In Context
28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:2Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.
2 Samuel 5:19And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up to the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy hand.
2 Samuel 22:30For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
Psalms 27:1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 144:1Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace in me hath not been void, but I have laboured more abundantly than all they: yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
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 →