Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;
New American Standard Bible
The Lord my God
King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Holman Bible
my God illuminates my darkness.
International Standard Version
For you, LORD, make my lamp shine; my God enlightens my darkness.
A Conservative Version
For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
American Standard Version
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
Amplified
For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;
The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
Bible in Basic English
You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
Darby Translation
For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt enlighten my lamp Jehovah my God will give light to my darkness.
King James 2000
For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.
Modern King James verseion
For You will light my candle; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
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.
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 » The lord enlightening
Lamps » Illustrative » Of God's guidance
Light » The lord lighting darkness
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual
References
American
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
27 For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low; 28 For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness; 29 For, by thee, I ran through a troop, and, by my God, I leapt over a wall.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 18:6
The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
Psalm 132:17
There, will I cause to bud a horn to David, I have prepared a lamp for mine Anointed One;
1 Kings 11:36
Nevertheless, go his son, will I give one tribe, - to the end there may remain a lamp unto David my servant always before me, in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself, to put my Name there.
Job 29:3
When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;
2 Samuel 22:29
For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh, - and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;
1 Kings 15:4
But, for the sake of David, did Yahweh his God give him a lamp, in Jerusalem, - by raising up a son of his after him, and by suffering Jerusalem to stand;
Psalm 112:4
Risen - in darkness, is light to the upright, The gracious and compassionate and righteous.
Proverbs 20:27
The lamp of Yahweh, is the spirit of a son of earth, searching all the chambers of the inner man.
Isaiah 42:16
Thus will I lead the blind, by a way they know not, In paths they know not, will I guide them, - I will make the place that was dark before them to be, light. And crooked ways, to be, straight, These things, have I done unto them, And have not forsaken them.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake, will I not hold my peace, And for Jerusalem's sake, will I not rest, - Until her righteousness, go forth as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that is lighted.
Matthew 4:16
The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld, - and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.
Luke 1:79
To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, 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 a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous light: -