Psalm 18:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up 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

Job 29:3

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

2 Samuel 22:29

Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord lightens my darkness.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79

to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Proverbs 20:27

The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord, searching every inmost part.

Psalm 112:4

They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright; they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn and her salvation like a burning torch.

Psalm 132:17

There I will cause a horn to sprout up for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him and establishing Jerusalem,

1 Kings 11:36

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

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;