Chapter 15
1Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to AO: “I will sing to AO for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
2AO is my strength and my song and He has become my salvation. He [is] my God and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
3AO is a warrior. AO is His name.
4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and army into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
5The depths have covered them, they sank [there] like a stone.
6Your right hand O AO is majestic in power. Your right hand O AO has shattered the enemy.
7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath, it consumed them like stubble.
8At the blast of Your nostrils, the waters piled up, the currents stood firm like a wall, the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils. I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword, 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 is like You among the gods O AO? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
12You stretched out Your right hand and the earth swallowed them up.
13With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed. You will guide them with Your strength to Your holy dwelling.
14The nations will hear [and] tremble, anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
16and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as stone until Your people pass by, O AO, until the people You have bought pass by.
17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place You have prepared for Your dwelling, O AO, the sanctuary Your hands have established, O AO.
18AO will reign forever and ever!”
19For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea, AO brought the waters of the sea over them. But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea.
20Then Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
21And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to AO for He is highly exalted. He has thrown the horse and rider into the sea.”
22Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water [there] because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
24So the people grumbled against Moses saying, “What are we to drink?”
25And [Moses] cried out to AO and AO showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, [they] were sweetened. There [AO] made for them a statute and an ordinance and there He tested them
26“If you will listen carefully to the voice of AO your God and do what is right in His eyes and pay attention to His commands and keep all His statutes, [then] I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am AO who heals you.”
27Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees and they camped there by the waters.