2 Samuel 22:29
You, Lord, are my lamp. The Lord lights up my darkness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28You save the humble, but your eyes watch the proud to bring them down.
30With you, I can charge down a troop of soldiers; with you, my God, I can climb a fortress wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3His light shone above me and lit my way through the darkness.
Psalms 18:28You light my lamp! Lord, my God, you light up my darkness!
Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is our sun and shield, and he gives us grace and honor. The Lord doesn't hold back anything good from those who do right.
Psalms 112:4Light shines in the darkness for those who live right, for those who are gracious, compassionate, and good.
Isaiah 60:19You won't need the light of the sun during the day, or the light of the moon at night, for the Lord your God will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Malachi 4:2But for those who have reverence for me, the sun of God's salvation will rise with healing in its wings, and you will be set free, leaping like calves released from their stalls.
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 →