Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.

The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed, That he should not die in the pit, And that his bread should not fail.

And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We [shall] all [be] dead."

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness.

'I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.

He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night [from] before the people.

And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.

So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness [to the one,] and it gave light by night [to the other,] so that the one did not come near the other all that night.

'for the LORD your God [is] He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

Then Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this [is] the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

"And it shall be, when you hear a sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines."

The one who breaks open will come up before them; They will break out, Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king will pass before them, With the LORD at their head."

Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

Then the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their armies; over their army [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.