Exodus 15 (New American Standard)

The Song of Moses and Israel

1 ¹Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, ^aand said, "^b2I will sing to the LORD, for He ^cis highly exalted ; ³The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. 2 "^d4The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation ; ⁵This is my God, and I will praise Him; ⁶My father's God, and I will ⁷extol Him. 3 "⁸The LORD is a warrior ; ^e9The LORD is His name. 4 "¹⁰Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea ; And the choicest of his officers are ^fdrowned in the ^gRed Sea. 5 "The deeps cover them; ¹¹They went down into the depths like a stone. 6 "¹²Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, ¹³Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. 7 "And in the greatness of Your ^hexcellence You ¹⁴overthrow those who rise up against You; ¹⁵You send forth Your burning anger, and it ¹⁶consumes them as chaff. 8 "¹⁷At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, ¹⁸The flowing waters stood up like a heap ; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 "¹⁹The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will ²⁰divide the spoil ; My ⁱdesire shall be ^jgratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will ^kdestroy them.' 10 "²¹You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; ²²They sank like lead in the ^lmighty waters. 11 "²³Who is like You among the gods, O LORD ? Who is like You, ²⁴majestic in holiness, ²⁵Awesome in praises, ²⁶working wonders ? 12 "²⁷You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them. 13 "In Your lovingkindness You have ²⁸led the people whom You have ²⁹redeemed ; In Your strength You have guided them ³⁰to Your holy habitation. 14 "³¹The peoples have heard, they tremble ; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 "Then the ³²chiefs of Edom were dismayed ; ³³The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; ³⁴All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16 "³⁵Terror and dread fall upon them; ³⁶By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone ; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You ³⁷have purchased. 17 "³⁸You will bring them and ³⁹plant them in ⁴⁰the mountain of Your inheritance, ⁴¹The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, ⁴²The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. 18 "⁴³The LORD shall reign forever and ever." 19 ⁴⁴For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on ⁴⁵dry land through the midst of the sea. 20 ⁴⁶Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took the ⁴⁷timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with ^m48dancing. 21 Miriam answered them, "⁴⁹Sing to the LORD, for He ⁿis highly exalted ; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea."

The LORD Provides Water

22 ⁵⁰Then Moses ^oled Israel from the ^pRed Sea, and they went out into ⁵¹the wilderness of ⁵²Shur ; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to ⁵³Marah, they could not drink the waters ^qof Marah, for they were ^rbitter ; therefore it was named ^sMarah. 24 So the people ⁵⁴grumbled at Moses, saying, "What shall we drink ?" 25 Then he ⁵⁵cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him ⁵⁶a tree ; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He ⁵⁷made for them a statute and regulation, and there He ⁵⁸tested them. 26 And He said, "⁵⁹If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear ⁶⁰to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, ⁶¹I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians ; for I, ⁶²the LORD, am your healer." 27 Then they came to ⁶³Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.