Psalms 18:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.
  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The breath of man `is' a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
  • 2 Sam 22:29 : 29 For Thou `art' my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.

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    28And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

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    30For by Thee I run -- a troop, By my God I leap a wall.

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    29For by Thee I run -- a troop! And by my God I leap a wall.

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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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    27For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

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    4Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

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