Psalm 18:28 “For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.”

Psalm 18:28

For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.

Darby Translation

For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

Young's Literal Translation

For Thou — Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth 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.

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Cross references

“thou wilt”

Job 29:3 Psalm 112:4 Job 18:6

Job 29:3 · BSB

when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

Psalm 112:4 · BSB

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Job 18:6 · BSB

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

“candle”

2 Samuel 22:29 Proverbs 20:27 Isaiah 62:1 Psalm 132:17 1 Kings 11:36

2 Samuel 22:29 · BSB

For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

Proverbs 20:27 · BSB

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.

Isaiah 62:1 · BSB

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

Psalm 132:17 · BSB

There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

1 Kings 11:36 · BSB

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

“my God”

Isaiah 42:16 Matthew 4:16 Luke 1:79 1 Peter 2:9

Isaiah 42:16 · BSB

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not for…

Matthew 4:16 · BSB

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79 · BSB

to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Also

1 Kings 15:4

1 Kings 15:4 · BSB

Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

29For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

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