Psalm 18:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ For thou wilt light my lamp: The LORD my God will lighten 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 lamp 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 tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

Job 29:3

When his lamp shined upon my head, And 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 lamp of the LORD, Searching all the innermost parts of the belly.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For there shall be a day of the LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will 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 her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

Matthew 4:16

The people which sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.

Luke 1:79

To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: