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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
- 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.
- 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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He prays that God send His light and truth to lead him back to His holy hill. He longs to be guided to God's presence in worship.
Overview
Light and truth are personified as God's guides bringing him to Zion and the dwelling of God. His deepest desire is restored fellowship in worship. This longing for God's light and truth finds fulfillment in Christ, who is the light and the truth (John 14:6).
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Cross-references · 24
- Ps 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
- John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- Ps 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
- Ps 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- Ps 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
- Ps 84:1For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
- Ps 25:4–5Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
- Ps 40:11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
- Mic 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Ps 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- Ps 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
- Ps 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- Ps 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- 1 Chr 16:1So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
- Ps 68:15–16A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.
- 1 Chr 16:39And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
- 2 Sam 15:20In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
- 1 Chr 21:29For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
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