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.

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 will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. ²⁸ For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness. ²⁹ For by you, I advance through a troop. 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. 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

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

Job 29:3

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

2 Samuel 22:29

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

1 Kings 15:4

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

Psalm 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Proverbs 20:27

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

Isaiah 42:16

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

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: