Nehemiah 9:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go. ²⁰ You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst. ²¹ Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.