Psalm 18:28 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁸ For You Yourself light my lamp; יהוה  my Elohim makes my darkness light.

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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 You are my lamp, O יהוה, And יהוה  makes my darkness light.

1 Kings 11:36

‘And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawiḏ

1 Kings 15:4

But for Dawiḏ

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp beside him is put out.

Job 29:3

when His lamp shone on my head, when I walked in the dark by His light;

Psalm 112:4

Light has risen in the darkness to the straight ones, Those showing favour, The compassionate, And the righteous.

Psalm 132:17

“There I make the horn of Dawiḏ

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of a man is the lamp of יהוה, Searching all his inmost parts.

Isaiah 2:11

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

Isaiah 2:12

For יהוה  of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low;

Isaiah 42:16

“And I shall lead the blind by a way they have not known – in paths they have not known I lead them. I make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for them, and I shall not forsake them.

Isaiah 62:1

For Tsiyon’s sake I am not silent, and for Yerushalayim’s sake I do not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her deliverance as a lamp that burns.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them.”

Luke 1:79

to give light to 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 set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,