Nehemiah 9:12

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;

They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness...

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”

These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

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

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Yahweh 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 will be a canopy.

His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.