Psalms 18:28
(18:29) For thou wilt cause my light to shine: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Leeser Tanakh
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 wilt indeed save the afflicted people; but haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
29(18:30) For [aided] by thee I run through a troop; and [helped] by my God I leap over a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For thou art my lamp, O Lord! and the Lord will enlighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for the sake of David did the Lord his God give him a rule in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to allow Jerusalem to exist.
Job 29:3When his lamp shone over my head, when by his light I could walk in darkness;
Psalms 132:17There will I cause to grow a horn unto David: I arrange a lamp for my anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The looks of human pride shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will cause the blind to walk on a way that they have not known; on paths that they have not known will I lead them: I will change darkness before them into light, and crooked places into plains. These are the things which I will do, and not leave them [unfulfilled].
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 →