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Psalms 18:28

Psalms chapter 18 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

v.28This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 1:79

    To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

  • 2 Samuel 22:29

    For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

  • Psalms 132:17

    There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

  • Isaiah 42:16

    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.

  • 1 Kings 11:36

    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.

  • 1 Kings 15:4

    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;