Psalms 105:39
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.”
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BSBPD
“He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 105:39 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Exodus 14:24At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Numbers 9:15On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
- Numbers 9:16It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
- Deuteronomy 11:5what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;
- Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
- Nehemiah 9:19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
- Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- 1 Corinthians 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
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