Psalms 105:39

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:12 : 12 You 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.
  • Ps 78:14 : 14 He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.
  • Isa 4:5 : 5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the LORD’s glorious presence.
  • 1 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Learning from Israel’s Failures For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
  • Neh 9:19 : 19 “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.
  • Exod 13:21-22 : 21 Now 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. 22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
  • Exod 14:24 : 24 In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.
  • Num 9:15-22 : 15 The 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. 16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night. 17 Whenever 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. 18 At 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. 19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey. 20 When 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. 21 And 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. 22 Whether 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

    14He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

  • Ps 105:40-41
    2 verses
    80%

    40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

    41He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

  • Exod 14:19-21
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

  • Neh 9:12
    79%

    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.

  • Exod 40:37-38
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Exod 13:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 9:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Ps 105:32
    76%

    32He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

  • Deut 1:33
    75%

    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.

  • Ps 105:38
    74%

    38Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

  • Neh 9:19
    74%

    19“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.

  • Exod 14:24
    72%

    24In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

  • Ps 105:28
    72%

    28He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

  • Exod 9:23
    72%

    23When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

  • Num 11:9
    72%

    9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

  • Exod 40:34
    72%

    34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • Exod 16:13
    71%

    13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

  • Num 10:34
    71%

    34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • Ps 78:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.

    28He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

  • Job 36:32
    71%

    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Josh 24:7
    71%

    7Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Num 9:21
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 18:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Num 14:14
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 40:19
    70%

    19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Job 36:30
    70%

    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Ps 78:24
    69%

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

  • Ps 97:3
    69%

    3Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.

  • Job 38:9
    69%

    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

  • Exod 10:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21The Ninth Blow: Darkness The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”

    22So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

  • Ps 106:9
    69%

    9He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

  • Neh 9:15
    69%

    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.

  • Job 37:11
    68%

    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

  • Gen 1:17
    68%

    17God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

  • Ps 99:7
    68%

    7He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.

  • Exod 40:25
    68%

    25Then he set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Job 26:9
    68%

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.