Exodus 15

Song of Victory at the Sea

15Then Moses and the Israelites^a sang this song to Yahweh, and they said,^b

“Let me sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted;

the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.

²Yah^c is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation;^d

this is my God, and I will praise him—the God of my father—and I will exalt him.

³Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name.

⁴The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea,

and his choice adjutants were sunk in the Red Sea.^e

⁵The deep waters covered them;

they went down into the depths like a stone.

⁶Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power;

Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy.

⁷And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you;

you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble.

⁸And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up;

waves stood like a heap;

deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed.

⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder,

my desire will be full of them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

¹⁰You blew with your breath; the sea covered them;

they dropped like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh?

Who is like you—glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders?^f

¹²You stretched out your right hand;

the earth swallowed them.

¹³In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed;

in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness.^g

¹⁴Peoples heard; they trembled;

anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom were horrified; great distress seized the leaders of Moab;

all of the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

¹⁶Terror and dread fell on them;

at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone,

until your people passed by, Yahweh,

until the people whom you bought passed by.

¹⁷You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance,

a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh,

a sanctuary, Lord, that your hands established.

¹⁸Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever.”

¹⁹When the horses^h of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariotsⁱ and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the Israelites^j traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea. ²⁰And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her^k tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ²¹And Miriam answered,^l “Sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.”

Yahweh Provides Water at Marah

²²And Moses caused Israel to set out from the Red Sea,^m and they went out into the desert of Shur, and they traveled three days in the desert, and they did not find water. ²³And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore it was namedⁿ Marah. ²⁴And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them. ²⁶And he said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseases^o that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer.

²⁷And they came to Elim, and twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees were there, and they encamped there at the water.