Psalms 18:28
What meaning of the psalms 18:28 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 18:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For thou wilt light my candle:g the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness."
What does Psalms 18:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For thou wilt light my candle:g the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness."
Verse Psalms 18:28. _FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE_] Thou wilt restore me to prosperity, and give me a happy issue out of all my afflictions. By the _lamp of David_ the _Messiah_ may be meant: thou wi...
FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE - Margin, lamp. The word lamp best expresses the idea. In the Scriptures light is an image of prosperity, success, happiness, holiness, as darkness is the image of the op...
Psalms 18 The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ _ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_ 2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7) 3. God gave Him glory (Psalms 18:19) 4. His enemies...
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
CANDLE. lamp. Used to-day, in the East, more for comfort than light....
THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE— i.e. Advance me to honour, and increase my prosperity; and make me continually joyful by thy favour. Nothing more usual among the Oriental writers than the representing any...
PSALMS 18 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David's Song of Deliverance. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
_FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE: THE LORD MY GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after he ha...
Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
FOR THOU WILT. — Better, _Thou makest bright my lamp._ In Samuel, “It is thou Jehovah who art my lamp.” This obvious metaphor is common in Hebrew, as in all literature. Light is an emblem of prosperit...
_[Psalms 18:29]_ כִּֽי ־אַ֭תָּה תָּאִ֣יר נֵרִ֑י יְהוָ֥ה אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי׃...
Psalms 18:1 THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout ima...
GIRDED WITH STRENGTH FOR SERVICE Psalms 18:27 God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him through th...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
All these verses become doubly precious and blessed to the people of Christ, from their personal concern in all that is his. The promise of Jehovah is to the seed of Christ, in Christ as well as to Ch...
_LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS_ ‘The Lord my God shall make my darkness to be light.’ Psalms 18:28 (Prayer Book Version) There are three dark shadows which fall across every human life. I. THERE IS, FIRST...
28._For thou shalt light my lamp. _In the song in Samuel, the form of the expression is somewhat more precise; for there it is said not that God lights our lamp, but that he himself is our lamp. The m...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE,.... Or lamp d: in 2 Samuel 22:29, it is, "Thou [art] my lamp, O Lord"; which may either design outward prosperity, and the flourishing condition of David's kingdom; or...
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Ver. 28. _For thou wilt light my candle_] Or, Thou hast lighted my candle, that is, thou hast bettered my condition, which s...
_Thou wilt light_, or, _thou dost light_, or, _hast lighted, my candle_ That is, given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and posterity also: all which particulars are often signified by a _candle_, o...
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, His...
CANDLE: Or, lamp...
20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God. But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon...
Or, _thou dost light_, or _hast lighted, my candle_, i.e. given me safety, and comfort, and prosperity, and glory, and posterity also; all which are oft signified by a _candle_ or a _light_, as ESTHER...
Psalms 18:28 light H215 (H8686) lamp H5216 LORD H3068 God H430 enlighten H5050 (H8686) darkness H2822 thou wilt - Psalms 112:4; Job 18:6, Job 29:3 candle - or, lamp, Psalms 132:17;...
INDEED IT IS THROUGH GOD THAT WE WILL TRIUMPH (PSALMS 18:28). ‘For you will light my lamp, YHWH my God will lighten my darkness. For by you I run on a troop, And by my God do I leap over a wall. H...
Psalms 18:28 There are three dark shadows which fall across every human life. I. There is, first of all, the shadow of sin. It falls dark and thick upon the life of human beings. Sin is the transgre...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._ What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do so,...
CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his c...
_Thou wilt light my candle._ LIGHTED CANDLES In the East the poorest people burnt a lamp all through the night time, for they dreaded a dark house as a terrible calamity. When they had light they wer...
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR LAMP? Thou wilt light my lamp. Psalms 18:28. Have you ever heard of the wonderful game of “lantern-bearers” played by Robert Louis Stevenson when he was a boy? He and his friends...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v. Psalm...
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient comment...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
1 Kings 11:36; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Samuel 22:29; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 62:1; Job 18:6; Job 29:3; Luke 1:79; Matthew 4:16; Proverbs 20:27;...
Lightest — Given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and posterity also....