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 you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low. ²⁸ You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me. ²⁹ 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.

Phrases

Lord Shall

Names

Jehovah

Cross References

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

1 Kings 11:36

And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

Job 29:3

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

2 Samuel 22:29

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

1 Kings 15:4

But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

Psalm 112:4

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

Proverbs 20:27

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Isaiah 62:1

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

Matthew 4:16

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

Luke 1:79

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

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