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Tell of His Wonders

Psalms 105:39

In 11 translations

BSB
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
KJV
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
WEB
He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
ASV
He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.
LSV
He has spread a cloud for a covering, || And fire to enlighten the night.
YLT
He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.
DBY
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
DRC104:39
He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.
GNV
He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.
JPS
He spread a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in the night.
LXXE104:39
He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.

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Original-language editions

WLC
פָּרַ֣שׂ עָנָ֣ן לְמָסָ֑ךְ וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ לְהָאִ֥יר לָֽיְלָה׃
LXX-Br104:39
Διεπέτασε νεφέλην εἰς σκέπην αὐτοῖς, καὶ πῦρ τοῦ φωτίσαι αὐτοῖς τὴν νύκτα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
  • Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
  • Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
  • Exodus 13:21–22And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the…
  • Nehemiah 9:19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
  • Exodus 14:24At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:1–2I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
  • Numbers 9:15–22On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning. It remained that way continually; the cloud would…

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