2 Samuel 22:29
For you, Lord, are my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
Cross References
Job 29:3As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.
Psalms 84:11Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. 1
Psalms 112:4The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens. 1
Isaiah 60:19+ 60:19 Rev 21:23-27 And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and God your glory.
Malachi 4:2But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in his wings: and you⌃ shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.
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 →