Nehemiah 9:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You in Your great mercy forsook them not in the wilderness; the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ you, in your great mercy, didn’t abandon them in the wilderness. The column of cloud continued to guide them on their journey during the day, and the column of lightning lit their path during the night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ even so, in the multitude of your mercies, you did not send them away in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not withdraw from them by day, so that it might lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, so that it might show them the way along which they might advance.

Nehemiah 9:19 Cross References

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Nehemiah 9:27

Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Malachi 3:6

For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

Nehemiah 9:12

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.

Daniel 9:18

Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, but we have rebelled against him

Numbers 14:14

and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Lamentations 3:22

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

Isaiah 44:21

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, do not forget me.

Nehemiah 9:31

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Exodus 40:38

For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

Exodus 40:36

Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on each stage of their journey,

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Psalm 136:16

who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever; who made water flow from the rock, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Ezekiel 20:17

Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make an end of them in the wilderness.