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Exodus 15

¹Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.

²“The LORD is my strength and my defense [29]; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

³The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.

⁴Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea. The best of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea. [30]

⁵The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

⁶Your right hand, LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, LORD, shattered the enemy.

⁷“In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.

⁸By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

⁹The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’

¹⁰But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹Who among the gods is like you, LORD? Who is like you — majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?

¹²“You stretch out your right hand, and the earth swallows your enemies.

¹³In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.

¹⁴The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia.

¹⁵The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling, the people [31] of Canaan will melt away;

¹⁶terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone — until your people pass by, LORD, until the people you bought [32] pass by.

¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance — the place, LORD, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.

¹⁸“The LORD reigns for ever and ever.”

¹⁹When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and horsemen [33] went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

²⁰Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.

²¹Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”

²²Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

²³When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah. [34])

²⁴So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

²⁵Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.

²⁶He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”

²⁷Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.