Psalms 18:28

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 I will make there the horne of Dauid to bud vp: I wyll ordayne a light for mine annoynted.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:
  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 And vnto his sonne will I geue one tribe, that Dauid my seruaut may haue a light alway before me in Hierusalem, the citie which I haue chosen me to put my name there.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous.
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The lanterne of the Lorde is the breath of man, searching all the inwarde partes of the body.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 For Sions sake wyll I not holde my tongue, and for Hierusalems sake I wyll not ceasse, vntill their righteousnesse breake foorth as the shining light, and their saluation as a burning lampe.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people, which sate in darknesse, sawe great lyght: And to them whiche sate in the region and shadowe of death, lyght is sprong vp.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Neuerthelesse, for Dauids sake did the Lorde his God geue him a lyght in Hierusalem, that he set vp his sonne after him, and stablished Hierusalem:
  • 2 Sam 22:29 : 29 For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 93%

    28And the poore people thou wilt saue: but thyne eyes are vpon the proude, to bring them downe.

    29For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.

    30For by thee I shall breake through an hoast of men: and by my God wyll I spring ouer a wall.

  • 3When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    78%

    11And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me,

    12Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee, and the night shalbe as lyghtsome as the day: darknesse and lyght to thee are both a lyke.

  • 29For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall.

  • 1God is my lyght and saluation, whom then shall I feare? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraide?

  • 8O thou enemie of myne reioyce not at my fall, for I shall rise againe: & though I sit in darkenesse, yet the Lorde is my light.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Yea, the light of the vngodly shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 2He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

  • 16Honour the Lorde your God or he take his light from you, and or euer your feete stumble in darcknesse at the hyll: lest when you loke for the lyght, he turne it into the shadowe and darcknesse of death.

  • 17Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • 27For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude.

  • 105Nun Thy worde is a candell vnto my feete: and a lyght vnto my pathes.

  • Ps 118:27-28
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    73%

    27It is the Lord God who hath geuen vs lyght: bynde a sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the aulter.

    28Thou art my Lorde, and I wyll confesse it vnto thee: thou art my Lorde and I wyll magnifie thee.

  • 13For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and my feete from falling: that I may walke before the Lorde in the light of the liuing.

  • 9For with thee is the fountaine of lyfe: and in thy light shall we see light.

  • 28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes.

  • Ps 43:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2For thou art the Lord of my strength: why hast thou reiect me, and why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie.

    3Sende foorth thy light and thy trueth: that they may leade me and direct me vnto thy holy hyll, & to thy tabernacles.

  • 8He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.

  • Ps 18:35-36
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    35Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased.

    36Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt.

  • 37Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder me: and my legges shall not faile me.

  • 8For thou O Lorde hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng.

  • 19The sunne shall neuer be thy day light, and the light of the moone shall neuer shine vnto thee: but the Lorde him selfe shalbe thyne euerlasting light, and thy God shalbe thy glory.

  • 12Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.

  • 9The lyght of the ryghteous maketh ioyfull: but the candell of the vngodly shalbe put out.

  • Ps 18:1-2
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    72%

    1To the chiefe musition the seruaunt of God, and of Dauid who spake vnto God the wordes of this song in the day that God deliuered him from the hande of all his enemies, and from the hande of Saul: And he sayde. I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength,

    2God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge.

  • 4There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous.

  • 2For lo, whyle the darknesse & cloude couereth the earth and the people, the Lorde shall shewe thee light, and his glory shalbe seene in thee.

  • 8All the lightes of heauen wyll I make darke for thee: and bring darkenesse vpon thy lande, saith the Lorde God.

  • 71%

    3But thou O God art a buckler for me: thou art my worship, and the lifter vp of my head.

  • 39Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me.

  • 7I wyll be glad and reioyce in thy louing kindnes: for that thou hast considered my trouble, and hast knowen my soule in aduersities.

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    6There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs any good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs.

  • 11And foorthwith thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes.

  • 17I will make there the horne of Dauid to bud vp: I wyll ordayne a light for mine annoynted.

  • 28My soule melteth away for very heauinesse: comfort thou me accordyng to thy worde.

  • 7God is my strength and my shielde, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart skippeth for ioy, and in my song I wyll prayse hym.

  • 11Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

  • 3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.

  • 22Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

  • 32It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.

  • 20Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode.

  • 16Cause thy countenaunce to shine vppon thy seruaunt: saue me for thy mercies sake.