Psalms 18:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, 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 burns.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh 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 you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

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    29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

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