Psalms 18:28
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
29For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David`s sake did Jehovah his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
Job 29:3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
Psalms 132:17There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake 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 →