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Send Out Your Light

Psalms 43:3

In 11 translations

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.
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.
WEB
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
ASV
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.
LSV
Send forth Your light and Your truth, || They lead me, they bring me in, || To Your holy hill, and to Your dwelling places.
YLT
Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They — they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
DBY
Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.
DRC42:3
Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.
GNV
Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.
JPS
O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me; let them bring me unto Thy holy mountain, and to Thy dwelling-places.
LXXE42:3
Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
שְׁלַח־אוֹרְךָ֣ וַ֭אֲמִתְּךָ הֵ֣מָּה יַנְח֑וּנִי יְבִיא֥וּנִי אֶל־הַֽר־קָ֝דְשְׁךָ֗ וְאֶל־מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br42:3
Ἐξαπόστειλον τὸ φῶς σου καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου, αὐτά με ὡδήγησαν καὶ ἤγαγόν με εἰς ὄρος ἅγιόν σου, καὶ εἰς τὰ σκηνώματά σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
  • Proverbs 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
  • Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
  • John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
  • Psalms 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
  • Psalms 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
  • Psalms 84:1How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
  • Psalms 25:4–5Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
  • Psalms 40:11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • Micah 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.
  • Psalms 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home: “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
  • Micah 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Psalms 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.
  • Psalms 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
  • Psalms 68:15–16A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan. Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 42:3 in some Bibles
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