The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 43:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

O send out thy light and thy truth (Psalms 40:11; Psalms 57:3, where, however, "mercy ( חסד) and truth" take the place of "light and truth"). Both words equally signify God's favour. Let them lead me.

As the pillar of fire and of the cloud led the Israelites into the promised land, so let God's "light and truth" now lead David back to Jerusalem and God's "holy hill of Zion." Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles; or, thy dwelling-place.

In his exile it was David's most earnest desire to revisit the tabernacle which he had set up on Mount Zion, where God's presence dwelt, and prayer was most acceptably offered (see 2 Samuel 15:25; Psalms 42:2).

He had made his being brought back to it a test of the return of God's favour (2 Samuel 15:25, 2 Samuel 15:26).

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