KJV King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
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Psalm 18:28
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
WEB World English Bible
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
ASV American Standard Version
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Thou—Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Surrounding context — Psalm 18
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
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2 Samuel 22:29For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.Job 29:3When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.Matthew 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.1 Peter 2:9But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:Psalm 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.Proverbs 20:27The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.Isaiah 62:1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp [that] burneth.Psalm 132:17There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.1 Kings 11:36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless 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:
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