Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}

NET Bible

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

New Heart English Bible

For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

Themes

Enlightenment » Spiritual

Enlightenment » The lord enlightening

Lamps » Illustrative » Of God's guidance

Light » The lord lighting darkness

Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual

Spiritual » Enlargement » Enlightenment

Topics

References

American

PSALMS, THE BOOK OF

Easton

Candle

Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:28

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 10590
Psalm Rank: 159
8 Topics
6 Themes
13 Cross References
1 Reading
1 Phrase
1 Name
2 References

Context Readings

²⁷ For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down. ²⁸ For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.

Phrases

Lord Shall

Names

Jehovah

Cross References

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

Psalm 132:17

There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

1 Kings 11:36

And I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for me to put my name there.

Job 29:3

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

2 Samuel 22:29

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

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David's sake LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,

Psalm 112:4

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

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Matthew 4:16

the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.