Psalms 18:28

For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

In Context

27For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;

29For, by thee, I ran through a troop, and, by my God, I leapt over a wall.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:29For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh,—and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;

1 Kings 15:4But, for the sake of David, did Yahweh his God give him a lamp, in Jerusalem,—by raising up a son of his after him, and by suffering Jerusalem to stand;

Job 29:3When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

Psalms 132:17There, will I cause to bud a horn to David, I have prepared a lamp for mine Anointed One;

Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of mean men, shall be humbled, And, the haughtiness of great men, shall be bowed down,—And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 42:16Thus will I lead the blind, by a way they know not, In paths they know not, will I guide them,—I will make the place that was dark before them to be, light. And crooked ways, to be, straight, These things, have I done unto them, And have not forsaken 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 →

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