19 still, you, in your great compassion, did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud did not leave them by day; it kept leading them along the way. By night the column of fire kept showing them light and the path to take.

20 You also gave your good Spirit to teach them, did not withhold man from their mouths and provided them water to quench their thirst.

21 Yes, forty years you sustained them in the desert; they lacked nothing — their clothes did not wear out; their feet did not swell up.