Exodus 15

God's Power Displayed Exodus 15:3–5

³Verse 3. Yahweh is a man of war.Yahweh is his name.⁴Verse 4. He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.⁵Verse 5. The deeps cover them.They went down into the depths like a stone.

A Declaration of God's Might Exodus 15:6–11

⁶Verse 6. Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.⁷Verse 7. In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.⁸Verse 8. With 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.⁹Verse 9. The 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.’¹⁰Verse 10. You blew with your wind.The sea covered them.They sank like lead in the mighty waters.¹¹Verse 11. Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?Who is like you, glorious in holiness,fearful in praises, doing wonders?

The Nations' Reaction Exodus 15:12–16

¹²Verse 12. You stretched out your right hand.The earth swallowed them.¹³Verse 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.¹⁴Verse 14. The peoples have heard.They tremble.Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.¹⁵Verse 15. Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.¹⁶Verse 16. Terror 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 you have purchased pass over.

Promise of Inheritance Exodus 15:17–19

¹⁷Verse 17. You 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. ¹⁸Verse 18. Yahweh shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁹Verse 19. For 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 middle of the sea.

Miriam's Response Exodus 15:20–21

²⁰Verse 20. Miriam 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. ²¹Verse 21. Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Journey into the Wilderness Exodus 15:22–27

²²Verse 22. Moses 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. ²³Verse 23. When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. ²⁴Verse 24. The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵Verse 25. Then 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;

²⁶Verse 26. and 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.” ²⁷Verse 27. They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.