Psalm 43:3
New International Version
Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

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.

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!

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.

King James Bible
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto 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 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.

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
O send out Thy light and Thy truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Thy holy hill, And to Thy dwelling places.

Legacy Standard Bible
Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy mountain And to Your dwelling places.

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.

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.

Holman 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Send your light and your truth and comfort me, and they will bring me to your holy mountain and to your tent.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.

Contemporary English Version
Send your light and your truth to guide me. Let them lead me to your house on your sacred mountain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Send forth thy light and thy truth : they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Send your light and your truth. Let them guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling place.

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.

International Standard Version
Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places.

JPS Tanakh 1917
O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me; Let them bring me unto Thy holy mountain, and to Thy dwelling-places.

Literal Standard Version
Send forth Your light and Your truth, | They lead me, they bring me in, | To Your holy hill, and to Your dwelling places.

Majority 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.

New American Bible
That I may come to the altar of God, to God, my joy, my delight. Then I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.

New Heart English Bible
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, To your tents.

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.

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.

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Send Out Your Light
2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression? 3Send 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. 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 15:25
Then the king said to Zadok, "Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.

Psalm 2:6
"I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain."

Psalm 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah

Psalm 25:5
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

Psalm 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Psalm 36:9
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

Psalm 40:11
O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.


Treasury of Scripture

O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.

send

Psalm 40:11
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Psalm 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Psalm 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

lead

Psalm 25:4,5
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths…

Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Proverbs 3:5,6
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding…

thy holy

Psalm 2:6
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Psalm 3:4
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Psalm 68:15,16
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan…

tabernacles

1 Chronicles 16:1,39
So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God…

1 Chronicles 21:29
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

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Psalm 43
1. David, praying to be restored to the temple, promises to serve God joyfully
5. He encourages his soul to trust in God














(3) O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me.--Instead of the violent and contemptuous escort of Assyrian soldiers, leading the exile away from the "holy hill," the poet prays for God's light and truth to lead him, like two angel guides, back to it. Light and truth! What a guidance in this world of falsehood and shadow! The Urim and Thummim of the saints (Deuteronomy 33:8), the promised attendants of Israel, have been, and are, the escort of all faithful souls in all ages.

Verse 3. - O send out thy light and thy truth (Psalm 40:11; Psalm 57:3, where, however, "mercy (חסד) and truth" take the place of "light and truth"). Both words equally signify God's favour. Let them lead me. As the pillar of fire and of the cloud led the Israelites into the promised land, so let God's "light and truth" now lead David back to Jerusalem and God's "holy hill of Zion." Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles; or, thy dwelling-place. In his exile it was David's most earnest desire to revisit the tabernacle which he had set up on Mount Zion, where God's presence dwelt, and prayer was most acceptably offered (see 2 Samuel 15:25; Psalm 42:2). He had made his being brought back to it a test of the return of God's favour (2 Samuel 15:25, 26).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Send out
שְׁלַח־ (šə·laḥ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

Your light
אוֹרְךָ֣ (’ō·wr·ḵā)
Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

and Your truth;
וַ֭אֲמִתְּךָ (wa·’ă·mit·tə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness

let them
הֵ֣מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

lead me.
יַנְח֑וּנִי (yan·ḥū·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's 5148: To guide, to transport

Let them bring me
יְבִיא֥וּנִי (yə·ḇî·’ū·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Your holy
קָ֝דְשְׁךָ֗ (qāḏ·šə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

mountain,
הַֽר־ (har-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

and to
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the place where You dwell.
מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶֽיךָ׃ (miš·kə·nō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle


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