Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the
 wilderness
 Where no supply could be had, if he had cast them off, see ( Nehemiah 9:17 ) , 
 the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in
 the way;
 which, if it had, they would have been scorched by the heat of the sun: 
 neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way
 wherein they should go;
 or otherwise they would have lost their way, and not have known which way to have gone.