You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Parallel translations
- WEB You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- KJV Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- NKJV You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- NASB You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- NLT You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds.
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God led His people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Overview
The psalm closes its meditation on the Exodus by picturing God as the shepherd who guides His flock through His appointed servants. This tender image of guidance answers the psalmist's earlier despair with the assurance of God's faithful care. It anticipates Christ, the Good Shepherd, who leads His people safely through every trial.
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Cross-references · 7
- Exod 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Ps 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Isa 63:11–12Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Exod 14:19And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind 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
- Acts 7:35–36This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
- Hos 12:13But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
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