Nehemiah 9:12-21 - Wandering In The Wilderness

¹² And in a pillar of cloud thou didst guide them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, to enlighten the way to them that they shall go in it ¹³ And upon mount Sinai thou camest down, and speaking with them from the heavens, and thou wilt give to them right judgments, and laws of truth, good laws and commands ¹⁴ and thou didst make known to them thy holy Sabbath, and commands, and ordinances, and law; thou didst charge to them by the hand of Moses thy servant: ¹⁵ And bread from the heavens thou gavest to them for their hunger, and water from the rock thou broughtest forth to them for their thirst; and thou wilt say to them to go in and to inherit the land which thou didst lift up thy hand to give to them. ¹⁶ And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands, ¹⁷ And they will refuse to hear, and they will not remember thy wonders which thou didst with them; and they will harden their necks, and they will give a head to turn back to their servitude in their perverseness: and thou a God of forgivenesses, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and great of mercy, and thou didst not forsake them. ¹⁸ Also when they made to them a molten calf, and they will say, This thy God which brought thee up from Egypt; and they will make great reproaches; ¹⁹ And thou in thy many compassions forsookest them not in the desert: not removing the pillar of cloud from above them in the day to guide them in the way; and the pillar of fire in the night, to enlighten to them, and the way that they shall go in it ²⁰ And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst ²¹ And forty years thou didst nourish them in the desert; they wanted not; their garments fell not away, and their feet swelled not