Parallel Verses
Amplified
For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;
The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
New American Standard Bible
The Lord my God
King James Version
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Holman Bible
my God illuminates my darkness.
International Standard Version
For you, LORD, make my lamp shine; my God enlightens my darkness.
A Conservative Version
For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
American Standard Version
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
Bible in Basic English
You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
Darby Translation
For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt enlighten my lamp Jehovah my God will give light to my darkness.
King James 2000
For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.
Modern King James verseion
For You will light my candle; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}
NET Bible
Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. My God illuminates the darkness around me.
New Heart English Bible
For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;
Webster
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
World English Bible
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Themes
Enlightenment » The lord enlightening
Lamps » Illustrative » Of God's guidance
Light » The lord lighting darkness
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual
References
American
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
27
For You save an afflicted and humble people,
But bring down those [arrogant fools] with haughty eyes.
For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;
The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
For by You I can crush a troop,
And by my God I can leap over a wall.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 18:6
“The light will be dark in his tent,
And his lamp beside him will be put out.
Psalm 132:17
“There I will make the horn (strength) of David grow;
I have prepared a lamp for My anointed [fulfilling the promises].
1 Kings 11:36
Yet to his son I will give
Job 29:3
When His lamp shone upon my head
And by His light I walked through darkness;
2 Samuel 22:29
“For You, O Lord, are my lamp;
The Lord illumines and dispels my darkness.
1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp (descendant on the throne) in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him and establishing Jerusalem,
Psalm 112:4
Light arises in the darkness for the upright;
He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).
Proverbs 20:27
The
Searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being.
Isaiah 42:16
“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know;
I will guide them in paths that they do not know.
I will make darkness into light before them
And rugged places into plains.
These things I will do [for them],
And I will not leave them abandoned or undone.”
Isaiah 62:1
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness and vindication go forth as brightness,
And her salvation goes forth like a burning torch.
Matthew 4:16
“The people who were sitting (living) in [spiritual] darkness have seen a great Light,
And for those who were sitting (living) in the land and shadow of [spiritual and moral] death,
Upon them a Light has dawned.”
Luke 1:79
To shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
To guide our feet [in a straight line] into the way of peace and serenity.”
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.