Quotes about Guidance

They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

And the LORD said to Moses,

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.