2 Samuel 22:29
For Thou [art] my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.
30For by Thee I run — a troop, By my God I leap a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Psalms 18:28For Thou — Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
Psalms 112:4Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19To thee no more is the sun for a light by day, And for brightness the moon giveth not light to thee, And Jehovah hath become to thee A light age-during, and thy God thy beauty.
Malachi 4:2And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness — and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a 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 →