O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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.
- 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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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 thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine 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 thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
- Ps 119:105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
- Ps 84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
- Ps 25:4–5Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
- Ps 40:11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
- Mic 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
- John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- Mic 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Ps 57:3He 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.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- 1 Chr 16:1So 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.
- Ps 68:15–16The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
- 1 Chr 16:39And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
- 2 Sam 15:20Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
- 1 Chr 21:29For 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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