What Does Psalm 105:43 Mean?
And he brought out his people with leaping, and his chosen with a ringing cry.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:THE KEY
The verse makes release audible: being brought out is joined to joy and a ringing cry.
THE MEANING
God’s bringing-out carries joy with it; the passage into freedom is not silent. You are held within a people whose emergence can sound as song.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Freedom only changes where you are; joy and song belong to a separate later moment.
THE ROOT
וַיּוֹצִא
wayyotsi
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
Go out, come out; in this causative form, bring out.
“brought out” in this verse is wayyotsi. The form behind “brought forth” is causative: he causes his people to go out. This same root also yields words for going out and for an outlet or source, joining release with what emerges from it.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, come out
יָצָא
The verse’s action shares its seed with the people’s own movement out.
motsaʾ: Going out, issue, source, or outlet
מוֹצָא
The root can name both departure and what comes forth, opening the image of release into emergence.
בְּשִׂמְחָה
b'simchah
GROWS FROM
שמח
ś-m-ḥ
Rejoice, be glad.
“leaping” in this verse is b'simchah. שִׂמְחָה (simchah, joy) belongs to the same family as the active verb for rejoicing and for making glad. The verse places joy within the people’s going-out, as part of the passage itself.
ALSO GROWS
samach: Rejoice, be glad
שָׂמַח
The noun “joy” grows from the same root as the act of rejoicing.
mesammeach: Gladdening, making glad
מְשַׂמֵּחַ
This branch shows the root can describe joy being kindled in another.
בְּרִנָּה
b'rinnah
GROWS FROM
רנן
r-n-n
Ring out in a shout or song.
רִנָּה (rinnah, a ringing cry or song) gives the verse’s “gladness” an audible quality. Joy does not remain only an inward feeling here; it rings out among the people.
ALSO GROWS
ranan: Sing or shout joyfully
רָנַן
The verb makes explicit the voice already carried by the noun in this verse.
renanah: A ringing cry or song of rejoicing
רְנָנָה
This related noun keeps gladness connected to a sound that can be shared.
THE PATTERN
Across constraint and release, God’s people give shared voice to joy and praise.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, I will sing to the LORD, for he has risen high, risen high; horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with a ringing cry. Then they said among the nations, The LORD has grown great in doing with these.In the middle of the night Paul and Silas prayed and sang praise to God, and the prisoners listened to them.THE THREAD
And it came to be on this very bone of the day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.Exodus 12:51 uses the same יצא (yatsa, go out) root for the LORD bringing the people out of Egypt. Psalm 105:43 lets you hear what that same exit carries: joy and a ringing cry.
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