2 Samuel 22:29
For thou, Lord, art my lamp, 1 And the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And thou wilt save the poor people, 1 And wilt bring down the eyes of the haughty. 1
30For by thee shall I run as a girded man, 1 And by my God shall I leap over a wall. 1
Cross References
Job 29:3As when his lamp shone over my head; 1 When by his light I walked through darkness. 1
Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth are met together: 1 Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 1
Psalms 112:4The Lord is high above all the nations; 1 His glory is above the heavens. 1
Isaiah 60:19And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten thy night; but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and God thy glory.
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 →