2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
30For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Psalms 18:28For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19The sun will be no more your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of 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 →