2 Samuel 22:29
Yahweh, you are like [MET] a lamp that causes it to become light when I am in the dark.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28You rescue those who are humble, but you watch [MTY] those who are proud and humiliate them.
Cross References
Job 29:3During those years, it was as though God’s lamp [MET] shone on me and gave me light while I walked in the darkness.
Psalms 18:28You give light to my soul/spirit; you take away the darkness of my soul.
Psalms 84:11Yahweh our God is like the sun that shines on us and like a shield that protects us [MET]; he is kind to us and honors us. Yahweh does not refuse to give any good thing/blessing to those who do what is right.
Psalms 112:4Godly/Righteous people are like lights [SIM] that shine in the darkness on those who are kind, merciful and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19And you will no longer need the sun and moon to give you light, because I, Yahweh, will give you more light than the sun and moon; I will be a glorious light for you forever.
Malachi 4:2But as for you who revere me [MTY], the one who will save you will come to you like [MET] the sun shines in the morning, and enable you to become righteous (OR, do what is righteous); he will restore you and protect you like a bird protects its chicks [MET] under its wings. When he comes, you will be very joyful, like [SIM] calves that go out from a barn into the pasture leaping joyfully.
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 →