“Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.
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11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.
12You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.
20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.
21For forty years you sustained them. Even in the wilderness they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
21Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.
22He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.
17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,
18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.
31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
32However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,
33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.
14He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.
30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
31However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.
15The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.
16This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.
17Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.
18At the commandment of the LORD the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the LORD they would make camp; as long as the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.
19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.
20When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.
21And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled.
22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.
14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
19The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
20It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.
36But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;
37but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.
38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.
28“Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.
6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
39He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
13By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.
34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.
17Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.
15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”
19You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.
17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”
31Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.
5I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.
2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
7He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.
8O LORD our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.
38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.