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Psalms 43:3

Send your light and your truth to guide me, to lead me to your holy mountain, to your home.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Praise;   Wisdom;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Access to God;   Pilgrims and Strangers;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dwelling;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Light and Darkness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.Let them bring me to your holy mountain,to your dwelling place.
Hebrew Names Version
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
King James Version
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
English Standard Version
Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!
New Century Version
Send me your light and truth to guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to where you live.
New English Translation
Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.
Amplified Bible
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.
New American Standard Bible
Send out Your light and Your truth, they shall lead me; They shall bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.
World English Bible
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.
Legacy Standard Bible
Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;Let them bring me to Your holy mountainAnd to Your dwelling places.
Berean Standard Bible
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
Contemporary English Version
Send your light and your truth to guide me. Let them lead me to your house on your sacred mountain.
Complete Jewish Bible
Send out your light and your truth; let them be my guide; let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the places where you live.
Darby Translation
Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.
George Lamsa Translation
O send out thy light and thy truth; let them comfort me; let them bring me unto thy holy mountain and to thy tabernacle.
Good News Translation
Send your light and your truth; may they lead me and bring me back to Zion, your sacred hill, and to your Temple, where you live.
Lexham English Bible
Send your light and your truth; they shall lead me. They shall bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places.
Literal Translation
O send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me and bring me to the mount of Your holiness and to Your tabernacles.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oh sende out yi light & thy trueth, yt they maye lede me & brynge me vnto thy holy hill and to thy dwellinge.
American Standard Version
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.
Bible in Basic English
O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me;
King James Version (1611)
O send out thy light & thy trueth; let them leade mee, let them bring mee vnto thy holy hill, and to thy Tabernacles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sende foorth thy light and thy trueth: that they may leade me and direct me vnto thy holy hyll, & to thy tabernacles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.
English Revised Version
O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sende out thi liyt, and thi treuthe; tho ledden me forth, and brouyten in to thin hooli hil, and in to thi tabernaclis.
Update Bible Version
Oh send out your light and your truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me to your holy hill, And to your tabernacles.
Webster's Bible Translation
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
New King James Version
Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle.
New Living Translation
Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live.
New Life Bible
Send out Your light and Your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy hill and to the places where You live.
New Revised Standard
O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Send forth thy light and thy faithfulness, Let, them, lead me, Let them bring me into thy holy mountain, and into thy habitations:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(42-3) Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.
Revised Standard Version
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling!
Young's Literal Translation
Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
THE MESSAGE
Give me your lantern and compass, give me a map, So I can find my way to the sacred mountain, to the place of your presence, To enter the place of worship, meet my exuberant God, Sing my thanks with a harp, magnificent God, my God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.

Contextual Overview

1 Defend me, God. Argue my case against those people who don't know you. Protect me from those evil liars. 2 God, you are my place of safety. Why have you turned me away? Why must I suffer this sadness that my enemies have brought me? 3 Send your light and your truth to guide me, to lead me to your holy mountain, to your home. 4 I want to go to God's altar, to the God who makes me so very happy. God, my God, I want to play my harp and sing praises to you! 5 Why am I so sad? Why am I so upset? I tell myself, "Wait for God's help! You will again have a chance to praise him, your God, the one who will save you."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

send: Psalms 40:11, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 97:11, Psalms 119:105, 2 Samuel 15:20, Micah 7:8, Micah 7:20, John 1:4, John 1:17

lead: Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 143:10, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 3:6

thy holy: Psalms 2:6, Psalms 3:4, Psalms 68:15, Psalms 68:16, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14

tabernacles: 1 Chronicles 16:1, 1 Chronicles 16:39, 1 Chronicles 21:29

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:25 - he will bring Psalms 15:1 - holy Psalms 27:6 - therefore Psalms 31:3 - lead Psalms 61:7 - prepare Psalms 84:7 - in Zion Psalms 84:10 - For Proverbs 6:22 - General Zephaniah 3:18 - sorrowful John 20:13 - why

Cross-References

Genesis 43:5
But if you refuse to send Benjamin, we will not go. The man warned us to not come back without him."
Genesis 43:15
So the brothers took the gifts to give to the governor. And the brothers took twice as much money with them as they took the first time. This time Benjamin went with the brothers to Egypt.
Genesis 43:20
They said, "Sir, I promise this is the truth. The last time we came, we came to buy food.
Genesis 43:33
Joseph's brothers were seated at a table facing him. The brothers were looking at each other because, to their surprise, they had been seated in order, from the oldest to the youngest.
Genesis 43:34
Servants were taking food from Joseph's table and bringing it to them. But the servants gave Benjamin five times more than the others. The brothers continued to eat and drink with Joseph until they were drunk.
Genesis 44:23
But you said to us, ‘You must bring your youngest brother, or I will not sell you grain again.'
2 Samuel 3:13
David answered, "Good! I will make an agreement with you. But I ask you only one thing: I will not meet with you until you bring Saul's daughter Michal to me."
2 Samuel 14:24
But King David said, "Absalom must go back to his own house. He cannot come to see me." So Absalom went back to his own house, but he could not go to see the king.
2 Samuel 14:28
Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two full years without being allowed to visit King David.
2 Samuel 14:32
Absalom said to Joab, "I sent a message to you. I asked you to come here. I wanted to send you to the king to ask him why he asked me to come home from Geshur. I cannot see him, so it would have been better for me to stay in Geshur. Now let me see the king. If I have sinned, he can kill me!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O send out thy light and thy truth,.... By light is meant, not the law, as Arama; but rather, as some Jewish p interpreters understand it, the Messiah, the sun of righteousness, and light of the world; who is the author of all light, natural, spiritual, and eternal; and whose coming into the world is often signified by being sent into it. The Spirit of God also is the enlightener of men, both at first conversion and afterwards, and is sent down into their hearts as a comforter of them, by being the Spirit of adoption. The Gospel of Christ is a great and glorious light, which, with the Holy Ghost, is sent down from heaven; though perhaps here rather may be meant the light of God's countenance, the discoveries of his favour and lovingkindness, which produce light, life, joy, peace, and comfort: and by "truth" may be meant, either Christ himself, who is the truth; or the Gospel the word of truth; or rather the faithfulness of God in the fulfilment of his promises; and so the words are a petition that God would show forth his lovingkindness, and make good his word, which would be of the following use:

let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles; that is, to the place of public worship, where the tabernacle was, the "hill" where it was, which seems to be Mount Zion; and is called "holy"; not that there was any real holiness in it; only relative, because of the worship of God in it; and the "tabernacle" is called "tabernacles", because of the holy place and the most holy place in it; the one being the first, the other the second tabernacle, as in Hebrews 9:2; and this hill and tabernacles represented the church and ordinances of God, to which such who are possessed of light and truth are led.

p Midrash Tillim, & Jarchi, in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O send out thy light and thy truth - Send them forth as from thy presence; or, let them be made manifest. The word light here is equivalent to favor or mercy, as when one prays for the “light of God’s countenance” (see the notes at Psalms 4:6); and the idea is, that now, in the time of darkness and trouble, when the light of God’s countenance seemed to be withdrawn or hidden, he prays that God would impart light; that he would restore his favor; that he would conduct him back again to his former privileges. The word truth here is equivalent to truthfulness or faithfulness; and the prayer is, that God would manifest his faithfulness to him as one of his own people, by restoring him to the privileges and blessings from which he had been unjustly driven. Compare the notesat Psalms 25:5.

Let them lead me - That is, Let them lead me back to my accustomed privileges; let me go under their guidance to the enjoyment of the blessings connected with the place of public worship.

Let them bring me unto thy holy hill - Mount Zion; the place where the worship of God was then celebrated, and hence called the “holy hill” of God.

And to thy tabernacles - The tabernacle was the sacred tent erected for the worship of God (see the notes at Psalms 15:1), and was regarded as the place where Yahweh had his abode. The tabernacle was divided, as the temple was afterward, into two parts or rooms, the holy and the most holy place (see the notes at Hebrews 9:1-5); and hence the plural term, tabernacles, might be employed in speaking of it. The language here implies, as in Psalms 42:1-11, that the author of the psalm was now exiled or banished from this, and hence, also it may be inferred that the two psalms were composed by the same author, and with reference to the same occasion. If the reference here, moreover, is to Mount Zion as the “holy hill,” it may be observed that this would fix the composition of the psalm to the time of David, as before his time that was not the place of the worship of God, but was made “holy” by his removing the ark there. After his time the place of worship was removed to Mount Moriah, where the temple was built. It cannot be demonstrated, however, with absolute certainty that the reference here is to Mount Zion, though that seems in every way probable. Compare Psalms 2:6, note; Psalms 3:4, note; compare 2 Samuel 5:7-9; 2 Samuel 6:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 43:3. O send out thy light and thy truth — We are in darkness and distress, O send light and prosperity; we look for the fulfilment of thy promises, O send forth thy truth. Let thy light guide me to thy holy hill, to the country of my fathers; let thy truth lead me to thy tabernacles, there to worship thee in spirit and in truth.


 
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