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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.
Psalms 43:3 · New Living Translation
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.
  • 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.

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Quick answer

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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • 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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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 43:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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