Psalms 18:28
For you will light my lamp, Lord.My God will light up my darkness.
New Heart 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 haughty 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 132:17There I will make the horn of David to bud.I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low,the haughtiness 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 do not know.I will lead them in paths that they do not 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 →