Psalms 18:28
Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt cast downe the proude lookes.
29For by thee I haue broken through an hoste, and by my God I haue leaped ouer a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29Surely thou art my light, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkenes.
1 Kings 15:4But for Dauids sake did the Lord his God giue him a light in Ierusalem, and set vp his sonne after him, and established Ierusalem,
Job 29:3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,
Psalms 132:17There will I make the horne of Dauid to bud: for I haue ordeined a light for mine Anoynted.
Isaiah 2:11The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and 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 →