To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Parallel translations
- KJV To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- BSB He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
- 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 8:15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
- Exod 15:22Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- Exod 13:18but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
- Neh 9:19yet 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.
- Isa 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
- Num 9:17–22Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Neh 9:12Moreover, 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.
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