2 Samuel 22:29
For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
30For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
Psalms 18:28For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the 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 →