Psalms 18:28
For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;
Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Psalms 132:17I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, 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 →