“ For thou wilt light my candle:g the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. ”
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 t...
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 additio...
candle . lamp. Used to-day, in the East, more for comfort than light.
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 la...
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. For thou wilt light my candle - Thou wilt restore me to prosperity, and give me a happy issue out of all my afflictions. By...
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 a...
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...
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 c...
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 prospe...
Psalms 18:1-50 THE description of the theophany ( Psalms 18:7-19 ) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories ( Psalms 18:32-46 ) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former ca...
Girded with Strength for Service Psalms 18:27-50 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 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 C...
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,...
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...
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...
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 ,...
Devout Thanksgivings; Devout Confidence 20 The L ORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the clean...
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 Est...
Indeed It Is Through God That We Will Triumph ( Psalms 18:28-29 ). ‘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...
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 commen...
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 trans...
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 s...
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...
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...
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...
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, H...
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 ; Psalms 112:4 ; Psalms 132:17
Lightest — Given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and posterity also.