2 Samuel 22:29
Modern Translations
New International Version
You, LORD, are my lamp; the LORD turns my darkness into light.

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

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

Berean Study Bible
For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

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

NASB 1995
"For You are my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD illumines my darkness.

NASB 1977
“For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD illumines my darkness.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, You are my lamp; the LORD illuminates my darkness.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
O LORD, you are my lamp. The LORD turns my darkness into light.

International Standard Version
For you are my lamp, LORD, the LORD who illuminates my darkness.

NET Bible
Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

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

King James 2000 Bible
For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will enlighten my darkness.

New Heart English Bible
For you light my lamp. The LORD my God lights up my darkness.

World English Bible
For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

American King James Version
For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

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

A Faithful Version
For You are my lamp, O LORD. And the LORD will lighten my darkness.

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Surely thou art my light, O Lorde: and the Lorde will lighten my darkenes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For thou O LORDE art my lanterne. The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For You [are] my lamp, O YHWH, "" And YHWH lightens my darkness.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
For thou my light, O Jehovah: And Jehovah will enlighten my darkness.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
For you are my lamp, O Lord. And you, O Lord, will illuminate my darkness.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
You shall light my lamp, LORD JEHOVAH! My God shall enlighten my darkness

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD doth lighten my darkness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou, Lord, art my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.
















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