2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, Yahweh. 1 Yahweh lights up my darkness. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28You save afflicted people, 1 but your eyes are against the proud, and you bring them down. 1
30For by you I can run over a barricade; 1 by my God I can leap over a wall. 1
Cross References
Job 29:3when his lamp shined on my head, 1 and when I walked through darkness by his light. 1
Psalms 18:28For you give light to my lamp; Yahweh my God lights up my darkness. 1
Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; 1 Yahweh will give grace and glory; 1 he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity. 1
Psalms 112:4Light shines in the darkness for the godly person; 1 he is gracious, merciful, and just. 1
Isaiah 60:19The sun will no longer be your light by day, 1 nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you; 1 but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. 1
Malachi 4:2But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and you will 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 →