He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- KJV To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- NKJV To Him who led His people through the wilderness, For His mercy endures forever;
- NASB To Him who led His people through the wilderness, For His faithfulness is everlasting;
- NLT Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness. His faithful love endures forever.
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God led His people through the wilderness, and His love endures forever.
Overview
Beyond the sea, God guided and sustained Israel through the barren wilderness for forty years. His steadfast love accompanied them on the long journey to the promised land. So too the Lord shepherds His people through the wilderness of this life, leading them home through Christ.
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- Deut 8:15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- Exod 15:22Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
- Exod 13:18So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
- Deut 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Ps 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Isa 49:10They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
- Neh 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.
- Isa 63:11–14Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Num 9:17–22Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
- Neh 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.
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