15:1 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, ①saying:
“ ②I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.
▷ ①Lit and said, saying ②Or Let me sing
15:2 ①The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation;
This is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
▷ ①Heb YAH
15:3 The LORD is a warrior;
①The LORD is His name.
▷ ①Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD
15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea;
And the choicest of his officers are ①drowned in the ②Red Sea.
▷ ①Lit sunk ②Lit Sea of Reeds
15:5 The waters cover them;
They went down into the depths like a stone.
15:6 Your right hand, LORD, is majestic in power;
Your right hand, LORD, destroys the enemy.
15:7 And in the greatness of Your ①excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send out Your burning anger, and it consumes them like chaff.
▷ ①Or exaltation
15:8 At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,
The flowing waters stood up like a heap;
The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
15:9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils;
①I shall ②be satisfied against them;
I will draw my sword, my hand will ③destroy them.’
▷ ①Lit My soul ②Lit be filled with them ③Or dispossess; or drive them out
15:10 You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
15:11 Who is like You among the gods, LORD?
Who is like You, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in praises, working wonders?
15:12 You reached out with Your right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
15:13 In Your ①faithfulness You have led the people whom You have redeemed;
In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.
▷ ①Or mercy
15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble;
Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.
15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom were terrified;
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have despaired.
15:16 Terror and dread fall upon them;
By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone,
Until Your people pass over, LORD,
Until the people pass over whom You have purchased.
15:17 You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,
The place, LORD, which You have made as Your dwelling,
The sanctuary, Lord, which Your hands have established.
15:18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.”
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.
15:20 Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with ①dancing.
▷ ①Lit dances
15:21 And Miriam answered them,
“Sing to the LORD, for He ①is highly exalted;
The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”
▷ ①Or has triumphed gloriously
15:22 Then Moses ①led Israel from the ②Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
▷ ①Lit caused Israel to journey ②Lit Sea of Reeds
15:23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters ①of Marah, because they were ②bitter; for that reason it was named ③Marah.
▷ ①Lit from ②Heb Marim ③I.e., bitterness
15:24 So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
15:25 Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.
15:26 And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
15:27 Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.