2 Samuel 22:29-30

²⁹ For thou art my lamp, [1] O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. ³⁰ For by thee I have run [2] through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

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Other Translations of 2 Samuel 22:29-30

New International Version

²⁹ You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light. ³⁰ With your help I can advance against a troopOr "can run through a barricade" ; with my God I can scale a wall.

English Standard Version

²⁹ For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness. ³⁰ For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

The Message

²⁹ Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. ³⁰ I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences.

New King James Version

²⁹ "For You are my lamp, O Lord; The Lord shall enlighten my darkness. ³⁰ For by You I can run against a troop; By my God I can leap over a wall.

New Living Translation

²⁹ O Lord, you are my lamp. The Lord lights up my darkness. ³⁰ In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:29-30

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David's psalm of thanksgiving.

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.