Exodus 15:10-20

10 "¹You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; ²They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

11 "³Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, ⁴majestic in holiness, ⁵Awesome in praises, ⁶working wonders?

12 "⁷You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.

13 "In Your lovingkindness You have ⁸led the people whom You have ⁹redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them ¹⁰to Your holy habitation.

14 "¹¹The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

15 "Then the ¹²chiefs of Edom were dismayed; ¹³The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; ¹⁴All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

16 "¹⁵Terror and dread fall upon them; ¹⁶By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You ¹⁷have purchased.

17 "¹⁸You will bring them and ¹⁹plant them in ²⁰the mountain of Your inheritance, ²¹The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, ²²The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

18 "²³The LORD shall reign forever and ever."

19 ²⁴For 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 ²⁵dry land through the midst of the sea.

20 ²⁶Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took the ²⁷timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with ²⁸dancing.

Exodus 15:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 15

This chapter contains the song of Moses, and of the children of Israel, on the banks of the Red sea; in which they celebrate their passage through it, the destruction of Pharaoh and his host in it, and the glory of the divine perfections displayed therein, interspersed with prophetic hints of things future, Ex 15:1-19 which same song was sung by the women, with Miriam at the head of them, attended with timbrels and dances, Ex 15:20,21, an account is given of the march of the children of Israel from the Red sea to the wilderness of Shur, and of the bitter waters found at Marah, which occasioned a murmuring, and of their being made sweet by casting a tree into them, Ex 15:22-25 when they were told by the Lord, that if they would yield obedience to his commandments, they should be free from the diseases the Egyptians had been afflicted with, Ex 15:26, and the chapter is concluded with their coming to Elim, where they found twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees, and there encamped, Ex 15:27.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 14:27, 28
• 2. Exodus 15:5
• 3. Exodus 8:10; Exodus 9:14; Deuteronomy 3:24; 2 Samuel 7:22; 1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 71:19; Psalms 86:8; Micah 7:18
• 4. Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8
• 5. Psalms 22:23
• 6. Psalms 72:18; Psalms 136:4
• 7. Exodus 15:6
• 8. Nehemiah 9:12; Psalms 77:20
• 9. Exodus 15:16; Psalms 77:15
• 10. Exodus 15:17; Psalms 78:54
• 11. Deuteronomy 2:25; Habakkuk 3:7
• 12. Genesis 36:15, 40
• 13. Numbers 22:3, 4
• 14. Josh 2:9, 11, 24; Joshua 5:1
• 15. Exodus 23:27; Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:9
• 16. Exodus 15:5, 6
• 17. Exodus 15:13; Psalms 74:2; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 31:11; Titus 2:14; 2 Peter 2:1
• 18. Exodus 23:20; Exodus 32:34
• 19. Psalms 44:2; Psalms 80:8, 15
• 20. Psalms 2:6; Psalms 78:54, 68
• 21. Psalms 68:16; Psalms 76:2; Psalms 132:13, 14
• 22. Psalms 78:69
• 23. Psalms 10:16; Psalms 29:10; Isaiah 57:15
• 24. Exodus 14:23, 28
• 25. Exodus 14:22, 29
• 26. Exodus 2:4; Numbers 26:59; 1 Chronicles 6:3; Micah 6:4
• 27. Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6; 1 Chronicles 15:16; Psalms 68:25; Psalms 81:2; Psalms 149:3; Jeremiah 31:4
• 28. Judges 11:34; Judges 21:21; 1 Samuel 18:6; Psalms 30:11; Psalms 150:4

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "majestic"
• [b]. Lit "dances"