With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
Parallel translations
- WEB “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- KJV Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
- NKJV You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.
- NASB “In Your faithfulness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.
- NLT “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home.
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Quick answer
In covenant love God leads the redeemed people He has bought, guiding them toward His holy dwelling.
Overview
The song turns from judgment to God's steadfast 'loving kindness' (hesed) in redeeming and guiding His own. Redemption is not merely rescue from Egypt but leading toward fellowship with God in His holy place. This trajectory, from bondage to God's presence, foreshadows the gospel's goal of bringing the redeemed home to God.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Ps 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- Ps 77:14–15You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
- Ps 78:52–54He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Jer 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Isa 63:12–13who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
- Gen 19:16But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
- Ps 80:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
- Eph 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
- Neh 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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