Psalms 18:28

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For You light my lamp, || My God YHWH enlightens my darkness.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC17:29

For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.

GNV

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

JPS18:29

For Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness.

LXXE17:29

For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.

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WLC18:29

כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה תָּאִ֣יר נֵרִ֑י יְהוָ֥ה אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי׃KJV:Ps.18.28

LXX-Br17:29

Ὅτι σὺ φωτιεῖς λύχνον μου Κύριε, ὁ Θεός μου φωτιεῖς τὸ σκότος μου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 2 Samuel 22:29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
• Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
• Isaiah 42:16I 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…
• Matthew 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
• 1 Peter 2:9But 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.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
• Proverbs 20:27The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
• Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
• Isaiah 62:1For 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.
• Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
• 1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, 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.
• 1 Kings 11:36I 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.
• Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

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