Nehemiah 9:19-21

New Catholic Bible

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.
²¹ For forty years you sustained them;
    they lacked nothing in the wilderness.
Their clothes did not become worn,
    and their feet did not become swollen.