Text -- Psalms 43:3 (NET)

43:3 Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 43:3

¹ tn Heb “send.”

² sn God’s deliverance is compared here to a light which will lead the psalmist back home to the Lord’s temple. Divine deliverance will in turn demonstrate the Lord’s faithfulness to his people.

³ tn Or “may they lead me.” The prefixed verbal forms here and in the next line may be taken as jussives.

⁴ tn Heb “bring.”

⁵ sn In this context the Lord’s holy hill is Zion/Jerusalem. See Isa 66:20; Joel 2:1; 3:17; Zech 8:3; Pss 2:6; 15:1; 48:1; 87:1; Dan 9:16.

⁶ tn Or “to your dwelling place[s].” The plural form of the noun may indicate degree or quality; this is the Lord’s special dwelling place (see Pss 46:4; 84:1; 132:5, 7).