Psalm 18:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁸ For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ For thou wilt light my candle: The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

Common English Bible

²⁸ You are the one who lights my lamp— the LORD my God illumines my darkness.

Psalm 18:28 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:29

For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

1 Kings 11:36

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

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Job 29:3

when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Psalm 112:4

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalm 132:17

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

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

Matthew 4:16

the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Luke 1:79

to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: