Nehemiah 9:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ “Even when they had cast for themselves
    a calf out of molten metal
and proclaimed: ‘Here is your God
who brought you up from Egypt,’
and were guilty of gross blasphemies,
¹⁹ you in your great compassion
    did not abandon them in the wilderness.
The pillar of cloud never failed
    to lead them on their journey by night,
nor did the pillar of fire fail by night
    to light the way ahead of them
    by which they were to go.
²⁰ “You bestowed your good spirit on them
    to give them understanding.
Your manna you did not withhold from their mouths,
    and you gave them water in their thirst.