Psalms 18:28

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [He is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Jehovah his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
  • 2 Sam 22:29 : 29 For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

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    29For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.

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