Psalms 18:28
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
BSB
ASV
For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
KJV
For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 18:29, 30 (339)
"I will bring forth a horn to David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed." The lamp is prepared for Christ, having arisen from the seed of David, for who other could it be than the offspring who has come forth from the succession of David according to the flesh; in what way does Christ who came into the womb of David become the ray of his own excellence and the light shining brightly for all people? Why in the aforesaid words does David speak prophetically: "Because you will light my lamp, Lord"?
"For thou wilt light my candle." Even the children of the day sometimes need candle-light. In the darkest hour light will arise; a candle shall be lit, it will be comfort such as we may fittingly use without dishonesty—it will be our own candle; yet God himself will find the holy fire with which the candle shall burn; our evidences are our own, but their comfortable light is from above. Candles which are lit by God the devil cannot blow out.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
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The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
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“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a…
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to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
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to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified…
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.”
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
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Isaiah 42:16I 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…
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And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
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2 Samuel 22:29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
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Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.