For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
- BSB For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
- NKJV For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
- NASB For You light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
- NLT You light a lamp for me. The Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
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- 2 Sam 22:29For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
- Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
- Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
- Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
- Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
- Prov 20:27The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
- Isa 62:1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
- Ps 132:17There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
- 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kgs 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
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