Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
Parallel translations
- KJV O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle.
- NASB ¶Send out Your light and Your truth, they shall lead me; They shall bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.
- NLT 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.
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- Ps 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
- John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- Ps 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
- Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Ps 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
- Ps 84:1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
- Ps 25:4–5Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
- Ps 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
- Mic 7:8Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 3:4I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Ps 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
- Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- 1 Chr 16:1They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
- Ps 68:15–16The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
- 1 Chr 16:39and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
- 2 Sam 15:20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
- 1 Chr 21:29For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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