Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low. 29 For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me. 30 By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

Cross References

Psalm 27:1

The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Job 29:3

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

2 Samuel 21:17

But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.

Psalm 4:6

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalm 18:28

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Psalm 84:11

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Psalm 97:11

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

Psalm 112:4

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

Isaiah 60:19-20

The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

Micah 7:9

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

Malachi 4:2

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

John 8:12

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

Revelation 21:23

And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

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