Psalms 18:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.”
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BSBPD
“For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For Thou--Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 18:28 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 22:29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
- 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.
- 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.
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
- Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
- Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
- Proverbs 20:27The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
- Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
- 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 forsake them.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
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