2 Samuel 22:29
For You [are] my lamp, O YHWH, || And YHWH lightens my darkness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And You save the poor people, || But Your eyes on the high cause [them] to fall.
30For by You I run [against] a troop, || By my God I leap a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, || By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Psalms 18:28For You light my lamp, || My God YHWH enlightens my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For YHWH God [is] a sun and a shield, || YHWH gives grace and glory. He does not withhold good || To those walking in uprightness.
Psalms 112:4Light has risen in darkness to the upright, || Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19The sun is no longer your light by day, || And for brightness the moon does not give light to you, || And YHWH has become to you || A continuous light, and your God your beauty.
Malachi 4:2But for you fearing My Name, || The Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings, || And you have gone forth, || And have bounded as calves of a stall.
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 →