Psalms 18:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalms 18:28 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 22:29
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Matthew 4:16
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Luke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-28)

Here, I. David reflects with comfort upon his own integrity, and rejoices in the testimony of his conscience that he had had his conversation in godly sincerity and not with fleshly wisdom, 2 Cor. 1:12. His deliverances were an evidence of this, and this was the great comfort of his deliverances. His enemies had misrepresented him, and perhaps, when his troubles continued long, he began to suspect…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. To give one light is to make prosperous (Job 18:5, 6; 21:17). thou--is emphatic, as if to say, I can fully confide in Thee for help.