Psalms 18:28
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
29For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
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 →