Psalm 18:28

Translations

Modern

For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

Traditional

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

Literal

For You light my lamp; YHWH my God makes my darkness shine bright.

Latin

Quoniam tu illuminas lucernam meam, Domine; Deus meus, illumina tenebras meas.

Original

Hebrew

English

For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

Notes

Psalms 18:28

light my lamp: The Lord renews the psalmist's life, helping him overcome the darkness of difficult times (see Psalms 112:4; 119:105).

Psalms 18:25–29

The faithful God remains true to his character. He loves faithfulness, innocence, and purity, and he hates wickedness (see Psalm 1:6).

Psalms 18:1–50

This psalm describes a royal story of God rescuing his king. A similar version of this psalm appears in 2 Samuel 22:1–51. The psalm encourages those who hear the earlier prayers for help in Psalms 16 and 17.

The psalmist describes the dramatic nature of God’s rescue in three different ways (Psalm 18:7–15, 16–19, 30–36). The psalm also offers hope that a future Son of David will completely defeat evil (Psalm 18:43–50; compare Psalm 2).

Psalms 15:1–19:14

The psalms in this section emphasize integrity and purity (Psalms 17:15; 18:20–26; 19:13–14). They describe people as living in God’s presence (Psalms 16:9–11; 17:15) and remaining steadfast (15:5; 16:8).

Theme notes and profiles

David Darkness and Light God Works through Prayer Praise Psalms Royal Psalms Salvation in the Psalms The Poor and Needy in the Psalms Wisdom Psalms

Related verses

2 Samuel 22:29
For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
Job 29:3
…when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Matthew 4:16
…the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
Luke 1:79
…to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Psalm 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Psalm 132:17
There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
Job 18:6
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

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