Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Holman Bible
and gave a fire to light up the night.
International Standard Version
He spread out a cloud for a cover, and fire for light at night.
American Standard Version
He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.
Amplified
The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.
Bible in Basic English
A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.
Darby Translation
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
Julia Smith Translation
He spread a cloud for covering, and fire to lighten the night
King James 2000
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night.
Modern King James verseion
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.
NET Bible
He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
New Heart English Bible
He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
The Emphasized Bible
He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by night,
Webster
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
World English Bible
He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.
Themes
Cloud of glory » Was designed to » Defend israel
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 105:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Work On Behalf Of Israel
38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them. 39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night. 40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou led them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
Psalm 78:14
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Isaiah 4:5
And LORD will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory, a covering.
Exodus 13:21-22
And LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.
Exodus 14:24
And it came to pass in the morning watch, that LORD looked forth upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.
Numbers 9:15-22
And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony, and at evening it was upon the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
Nehemiah 9:19
yet thou in thy manifold mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not depart 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 in which
1 Corinthians 10:1-2
But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,