Thomson(i)
12 With a pillar of cloud thou didst guide them by day; and by night with a pillar of fire, to illumine the way for them in which they should go:
13 thou camest down also on mount Sina and didst speak to them from heaven, and give them right judgments and laws of truth and statutes and good commandments.
14 Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths and didst prescribe for them commandments and statutes and a law by the ministry of thy servant Moses.
15 "Thou gavest them also bread from heaven for their food, and didst bring water for them out of a rock for their thirst, ordering them to go in and take possession of the land which thou hadst stretched forth thy hand to give them.
16 But they, even our fathers, behaved proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments.
17 Though they refused to go in, and were unmindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; though they hardened their neck, and set up a head to return to their bondage in Egypt, yet thou who art a God merciful and gracious, long suffering and of great kindness, didst not forsake them utterly.
18 Even before this, though they made themselves a molten calf and said, These are the gods which brought us up out of Egypt, and committed great provocations;
19 yet thou through thy manifold mercies didst not leave them in the wilderness. Thou didst not withdraw from them by day the pillar of a cloud which was to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire, at night, which was to illumine the way for them in which they should go;
20 but gavest thy good spirit to instruct them; and not withholding thy manna from their mouth, thou gavest them water when they were athirst.
21 Thus didst thou sustain them forty years in the wilderness, not suffering them to want any thing. Their clothes did not wear out, nor were their feet galled.