Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For thou are my lamp, O LORD. And LORD will lighten my darkness.

New American Standard Bible

For You are my lamp, O Lord;
And the Lord illumines my darkness.

King James Version

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

Holman Bible

Lord, You are my lamp;
the Lord illuminates my darkness.

International Standard Version

For you are my lamp, LORD, the LORD who illuminates my darkness.

American Standard Version

For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

Amplified


“For You, O Lord, are my lamp;
The Lord illumines and dispels my darkness.

Bible in Basic English

For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

Darby Translation

For thou art my lamp, Jehovah; And Jehovah enlighteneth my darkness.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou my light, O Jehovah: And Jehovah will enlighten my darkness.

King James 2000

For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will enlighten my darkness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you, O Yahweh [are] my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness.

Modern King James verseion

For You are my lamp, O Jehovah. And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.

NET Bible

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord illumines the darkness around me.

New Heart English Bible

For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.

The Emphasized Bible

For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh, - and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;

Webster

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

World English Bible

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou art my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For thou art my lamp
נרה נר ניר נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 48

O Lord

Usage: 0

and the Lord

Usage: 0

will lighten
נגהּ 
Nagahh 
Usage: 6

References

Context Readings

The Victory Song Of David

28 And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down. 29 For thou are my lamp, O LORD. And LORD will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I run upon a troop. By my God do I leap over a wall.


Cross References

Psalm 27:1

LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

Job 29:3

when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

2 Samuel 21:17

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shall no more go out with us to battle, that thou not quench the lamp of Israel.

Psalm 4:6

Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Psalm 18:28

For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.

Psalm 84:11

For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous man, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalm 112:4

To the upright there arises light in the darkness. [He is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you that fears LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of LORD, and rely upon his God.

Isaiah 60:19-20

The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to thee, but LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Micah 7:9

I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

John 12:46

I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb.

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