Exodus 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Song of Moses and Israel

(Exo 14:13, 14; Psa 78:12–14 )

Exo 15:1Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

Exo 15:2

Exo 15:2The LORD is my strength and my 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.

Exo 15:3

Exo 15:3The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.

Exo 15:4

Exo 15:4"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.

Exo 15:5

Exo 15:5The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.

Exo 15:6

Exo 15:6Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

Exo 15:7

Exo 15:7In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.

Exo 15:8

Exo 15:8At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

Exo 15:9

Exo 15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

Exo 15:10

Exo 15:10Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Exo 15:11

Exo 15:11"Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

Exo 15:12

Exo 15:12Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

Exo 15:13

Exo 15:13"Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode.

Exo 15:14

Exo 15:14The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Exo 15:15

Exo 15:15Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

Exo 15:16

Exo 15:16Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.

Exo 15:17

Exo 15:17Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.

Exo 15:18

Exo 15:18The LORD will reign for ever and ever."

Exo 15:19

Exo 15:19For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

(Num 26:59 )

Exo 15:20

Exo 15:20Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing.

Exo 15:21

Exo 15:21And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

The LORD Provides Water

Exo 15:22

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

Exo 15:23

Exo 15:23When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Exo 15:24

Exo 15:24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

Exo 15:25

Exo 15:25And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them,

Exo 15:26

Exo 15:26saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer."

Exo 15:27

Exo 15:27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.

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Exodus 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Song of Moses and Israel

The LORD Provides Water

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