Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth 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.
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.
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 Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall. 28 For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness. 29 For by Thee I run -- a troop! And by my God I leap a wall.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 18:6
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
Psalm 132:17
There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
1 Kings 11:36
and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
Job 29:3
In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.
2 Samuel 22:29
For Thou art my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4
but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
Psalm 112:4
Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Proverbs 20:27
The breath of man is a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
Isaiah 42:16
And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
Matthew 4:16
the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
Luke 1:79
To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
1 Peter 2:9
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;