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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:14

In 11 translations

BSB
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
KJV
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
WEB
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
ASV
In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
LSV
And leads them with a cloud by day, || And with a light of fire all the night.
YLT
And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.
DBY
And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
DRC77:14
And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.
GNV
In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
JPS
By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
LXXE77:14
And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּנְחֵ֣ם בֶּעָנָ֣ן יוֹמָ֑ם וְכָל־הַ֝לַּ֗יְלָה בְּא֣וֹר אֵֽשׁ׃
LXX-Br77:14
Καὶ ὡδήγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν νεφέλῃ ἡμέρας, καὶ ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ἐν φωτισμῷ πυρός.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 105:39He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the 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…
  • 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.
  • Exodus 40:35–38Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out…
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • 77:14 in some Bibles
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