2 Samuel 22:29

Bible in Basic English

For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, you are my lamp;the Lord illuminates my darkness.

Hebrew Names Version
For you are my lamp, LORD; The LORD will lighten my darkness.

King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O Lord : and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

Lexham English Bible
For you, O Yahweh are my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness.

English Standard Version
For you are my lamp, O Lord , and my God lightens my darkness.

New Century Version
Lord , you give light to my lamp. The Lord brightens the darkness around me.

New English Translation
Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord . The Lord illumines the darkness around me.

Amplified Bible
"For You, O LORD, are my lamp; The LORD illumines and dispels my darkness.

New American Standard Bible
"For You are my lamp, LORD; And the LORD illuminates my darkness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely thou art my light, O Lorde: and the Lorde will lighten my darkenes.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You are my lamp, O Yahweh;And Yahweh illumines my darkness.

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord and God, you are my lamp. You turn darkness to light.

Complete Jewish Bible
"For you, Adonai , are my lamp; Adonai lights up my darkness.

Darby Translation
For thou art my lamp, Jehovah; And Jehovah enlighteneth my darkness.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , you are my lamp. You, Lord , turn the darkness around me into light.

George Lamsa Translation
For thou wilt light my lamp; O LORD my God, lighten my darkness.

Good News Translation
You, Lord , are my light; you dispel my darkness.

Literal Translation
For You are my lamp, O Jehovah; and Jehovah shall light up my darkness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thou O LORDE art my lanterne. The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse.

American Standard Version
For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.

King James Version (1611)
For thou art my lampe, O Lord: and the Lord wil lighten my darkenesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou, Lord, art my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.

English Revised Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

Berean Standard Bible
For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD enlightens my darkness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou, Lord, art my lanterne, and thou, Lord, schalt liytne my derknessis.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thou [art] my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.

Update Bible Version
For you are my lamp, O Yahweh; And Yahweh will lighten my darkness.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

World English Bible
For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.

New King James Version
"For You are my lamp, O LORD; The LORD shall enlighten my darkness.

New Living Translation
O Lord , you are my lamp. The Lord lights up my darkness.

New Life Bible
"For You are my lamp, O Lord. The Lord gives light to my darkness.

New Revised Standard
Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord , the Lord lightens my darkness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh, - and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

Revised Standard Version
Yea, thou art my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

THE MESSAGE
Suddenly, God , your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences. What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For You are my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD illumines my darkness.

Contextual Overview

² And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine; ³ My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man. ⁴ I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me. ⁵ For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear; ⁶ The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me. ⁷ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears. ⁸ Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry. ⁹ There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it. ¹⁰ The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet. ¹¹ And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lamp: or, candle, Job 29:3, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 84:11, John 8:12, Revelation 21:23

lighten: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 18:28, Psalms 97:11, Psalms 112:4, Isaiah 50:10, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, Micah 7:9, Malachi 4:2, John 12:46

Reciprocal: Acts 12:7 - and a

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou [art] my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. :-.