Psalms 18:28
(18-29) For Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27(18-28) For Thou dost save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes Thou dost humble.
29(18-30) For by Thee I run upon a troop; and by my God do I scale a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD 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 above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
Psalms 132:17There will I make a horn to shoot up unto David, there have I ordered 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 the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, in paths that they knew not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and rugged places plain. These things will I do, and I will not leave them undone.
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 →