Psalms 105:39

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“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 Domain
ASVPD

“He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 105:39 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Numbers 9:16It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
  5. Deuteronomy 11:5what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
  9. 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,
  10. 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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