Nehemiah 9:12
Good News Translation
With a cloud you led them in daytime, and at night you lighted their way with fire.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.

Contemporary English Version
Each day you led your people with a thick cloud, and at night you showed the way with a flaming fire.

New American Bible
With a column of cloud you led them by day, and by night with a column of fire, To light the way of their journey, the way in which they must travel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

thou leddest

Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Exodus 13:21,22 And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times. . . .

Exodus 14:19,20 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forepart, . . .

Psalm 78:14 And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 105:39 He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

in the way

Psalm 107:7 And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalm 143:8 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

Context
The People Confess Their Sins
11And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters. 12And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.13Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.…
Cross References
Exodus 13:21
And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.

Exodus 13:22
There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.

Exodus 15:13
In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.

Numbers 9:16
So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.

Deuteronomy 1:33
Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.

Nehemiah 9:19
Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Psalm 105:39
He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

Nehemiah 9:11
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