Nehemiah 9:19-21

Contemporary English Version

^19 (A) Because of your great mercy,
you never abandoned them
    in the desert.
And you always guided them
with a cloud by day
    and a fire at night.
²⁰ Your gentle Spirit
    instructed them,^[a]
and you gave them manna^[b] to eat
    and water to drink.
²¹ You took good care of them,
and for forty years
    they never lacked a thing.
Their clothes didn't wear out,
and their feet were never swollen.