2 Samuel 22:29

29 For thou, Lord, art my lantern, and thou, Lord, shalt lighten my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:29 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 22:29

For thou [art] my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my
darkness.] (See Gill on Psalms 18:28).

2 Samuel 22:29 In-Context

27 and with a chosen man thou shalt be chosen, and with a wayward man thou shalt be made wayward . (and with the pure, thou shalt be pure, but to the wicked, thou shalt be hostile to them.)

28 And thou shalt make safe a poor people; and with thine eyes thou shalt make low them that be high. (And thou shalt save the poor; and thou shalt humble those who be high in their own eyes/and thou shalt look with contempt upon the proud.)

29 For thou, Lord, art my lantern, and thou, Lord, shalt lighten my darkness.

30 For I girded, that is, made ready to battle, shall run in thee, that is, in thy strength; and in my God I shall skip over the wall. (For when I am girded, that is, made ready for battle, I shall run by thy strength; and so, with God's help, I shall leap over the wall.)

31 God, his way is without wem; the speech of the Lord is examined with fire, that is, is (as) pure and clean as metal proved in the furnace; he is a shield of all men hoping in him. (As for God, his way is without fault; the word of the Lord is examined with fire, that is, is as pure and clean as metal proved in the furnace; he is a shield for all men hoping in him.)