Psalm 105:39 “He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.”

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

World English Bible

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

American Standard Version

He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.

Geneva Bible 1599

He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.

Darby Translation

He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

Young's Literal Translation

He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

Bible in Basic English

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

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Cross references

“spread”

Nehemiah 9:12 Psalm 78:14 Isaiah 4:5 Exodus 14:24 Nehemiah 9:19 Numbers 9:15–22

Nehemiah 9:12 · BSB

You 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.

Psalm 78:14 · BSB

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Isaiah 4:5 · BSB

Then 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,

Exodus 14:24 · BSB

At 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.

Nehemiah 9:19 · BSB

You 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.

Numbers 9:15–22 · BSB

On 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

40They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

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