15Exodus 15

1Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.Select Exodus 15:1

2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.Select Exodus 15:2

3Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.Select Exodus 15:3

4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.Select Exodus 15:4

5The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.Select Exodus 15:5

6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.Select Exodus 15:6

7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.Select Exodus 15:7

8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.Select Exodus 15:8

9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’Select Exodus 15:9

10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.Select Exodus 15:10

11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?Select Exodus 15:11

12You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.Select Exodus 15:12

13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.Select Exodus 15:13

14The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.Select Exodus 15:14

15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.Select Exodus 15:15

16Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone— until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.Select Exodus 15:16

17You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.Select Exodus 15:17

18Yahweh shall reign forever and ever.”Select Exodus 15:18

19For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.Select Exodus 15:19

20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.Select Exodus 15:20

21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”Select Exodus 15:21

22Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.Select Exodus 15:22

23When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.Select Exodus 15:23

24The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”Select Exodus 15:24

25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;Select Exodus 15:25

26and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention 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 am Yahweh who heals you.”Select Exodus 15:26

27They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.Select Exodus 15:27