Numbers 10:34

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?”

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.

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.

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

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:

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.”

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

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?”

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.

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.

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

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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;

He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

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

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.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

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.

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

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.

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

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

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.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

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

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.