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Psalm 43:3

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
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Light and truth become guides in this prayer, expressing a longing for God to lead the mourner to the place where he is worshiped.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.Both passages connect God’s light with guidance; Psalm 119 names his word as the lamp for the path.
Psalm 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.Both passages locate light in God: one asks him to send it, while the other describes seeing by it.
Proverbs 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.The prayer for God’s guidance shares Proverbs’ trust in the Lord rather than dependence on personal understanding.
Psalm 84:1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of Armies!God’s tents and dwellings are central in both passages, as the destination of prayer and the object of delight.
Psalm 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.Light is sought from God in Psalm 43 and described as sown for the righteous in Psalm 97.
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.Light is the shared word: the psalm asks God to send it, and John describes life as the light of men.
John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.Truth is sought from God in the psalm, while John says grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
Micah 7:8Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.Amid opposition, both speakers look to God for light: the psalm asks for it, and Micah expresses confidence in it.
Micah 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.Both passages speak of truth as something God gives, requested in the psalm and promised to Jacob in Micah.
Proverbs 6:22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.Both passages describe being led, though the psalm names God’s light and truth and this Proverbs excerpt leaves its guide unnamed.
2 Samuel 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 …Truth is requested for the speaker in the psalm and wished for departing companions in Samuel.
1 Chronicles 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.Both passages connect tents with worship of God: the psalm seeks God’s tents, while Chronicles describes offerings before the ark.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. waiting. praise and worship.

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Encouragement

The mourner asks for guidance while his distress remains unresolved. Your prayer can begin there too: God’s light and truth are worth seeking even when his presence feels distant.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).