Psalms 18:28

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • 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 candle shined upon my head, and when 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 light 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 full of compassion, and righteous.
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And 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.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 For 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.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The 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 1:79 : 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But 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:
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Nevertheless 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:
  • 2 Sam 22:29 : 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

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