Deu 2:7, 8:2, 15-16, Neh 9:12-21, Isa 63:7-14, Jer 2:6 | ESV | STEP | For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands . He knows your going through this great wilderness . These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing .

Deuteronomy 2:7

7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. ^aHe knows your going through this great wilderness. ^bThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

Deuteronomy 8:2

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^cthese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^dtesting you ^eto know what was in your heart, ^fwhether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:15-16

15 who ^gled you through the great and terrifying wilderness, ^hwith its fiery serpents and scorpions ⁱand thirsty ground where there was no water, ^jwho brought you water out of the flinty rock, 16 who fed you in the wilderness with ^kmanna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, ^lto do you good in the end.

Nehemiah 9:12-21

12 By ^ma pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go. 13 ⁿYou came down on Mount Sinai ^oand spoke with them from heaven and gave them ^pright rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 ^qand you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant. 15 ^rYou gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and ^sbrought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you ^ttold them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

16 “But they and our fathers ^uacted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey ^vand were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, ^wgracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 18 Even ^xwhen they had made for themselves a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew metal} calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ ^zand had committed great blasphemies, 19 you ^aain your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. ^abThe pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, ^acnor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 ^adYou gave your good Spirit to instruct them ^aeand did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 ^afForty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Isaiah 63:7-14

The Lord’s Mercy Remembered

7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
^agand the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
8 For he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely.”
And he became their Savior.
9 ^ahIn all their affliction he was afflicted, ^{▼▼Or he did not afflict}
and the angel of his presence saved them;
^ajin his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
^akhe lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
10 ^alBut they rebelled
^amand grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
and himself fought against them.
11 Then he remembered ^anthe days of old,
of Moses and his people. ^{▼▼Or Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses}
^apWhere is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
his Holy Spirit,
12 who caused his glorious arm
to go at the right hand of Moses,
^aqwho divided the waters before them
^arto make for himself an everlasting name,
13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.
14 Like livestock that go down into the valley,
^asthe Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
^atto make for yourself a glorious name.

Jeremiah 2:6

6 They did not say, ^au‘Where is the Lord
who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us ^avin the wilderness,
in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
in a land that none passes through,
where no man dwells?’