Psalm 18:28 {17:29}
Good News Translation
O LORD, you give me light; you dispel my darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
It is you who light my lamp; the LORD, my God, lights up my darkness.

Contemporary English Version
You, the LORD God, keep my lamp burning and turn darkness to light.

New American Bible
For you, LORD, give light to my lamp; my God brightens my darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

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Psalm 112:4 To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.

Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Job 29:3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

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Psalm 132:17 There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

1 Kings 11:36 And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.

Isaiah 62:1 For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp.

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Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

Matthew 4:16 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Luke 1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Context
The LORD is My Rock
27For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud. 28For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.29For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.…
Cross References
1 Kings 15:4
But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Psalm 13:3
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm 27:1
The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 118:27
The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

Psalm 132:17
There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

Psalm 18:27
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