KJV King James Version
[So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
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Deuteronomy 32:12
[So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
9 For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
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Isaiah 46:4And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].Psalm 78:52-53But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.Isaiah 44:7-8And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.Isaiah 43:11-12I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.Deuteronomy 1:31And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.Psalm 136:16To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.Isaiah 63:9-13In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.Psalm 78:14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.Nehemiah 9:12Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.Psalm 27:11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.Psalm 80:1To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.
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