19. Yet in your great mercyyou did not forsake them in the desert.By day the column of cloud did not cease to lead them on their journey,by night the column of fire did not cease to light the way they were to travel.
20. Your good spirit you bestowed on them,to give them understanding;Your manna you did not withhold from their mouths,and you gave them water in their thirst.
21. Forty years in the desert you sustained them:they did not want;Their garments did not become worn,and their feet did not swell.
22. You gave them kingdoms and peoples,which you divided among them as border lands.They possessed the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon,and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
23. You made their children as numerous as the stars of the heavens,and you brought them into the landwhich you had commanded their ancestors to enter and possess.
24. The children went in to possess the land;you humbled before them the Canaanite inhabitantsand gave them into their power,Their kings and the peoples of the land,to do with them as they wished.