Psalms 18:28
For Thou — Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
In Context
27For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.
29For by Thee I run — a troop! And by my God I leap a wall.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:29For Thou [art] my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
Job 29:3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Psalms 132:17There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
Isaiah 42:16And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I 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 →