Exodus 15:6-16

6 "¹Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, ²Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

7 "And in the greatness of Your excellence You ³overthrow those who rise up against You; ⁴You send forth Your burning anger, and it ⁵consumes them as chaff.

8 "⁶At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, ⁷The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

9 "⁸The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will ⁹divide the spoil; My desire shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.'

10 "¹⁰You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; ¹¹They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

11 "¹²Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, ¹³majestic in holiness, ¹⁴Awesome in praises, ¹⁵working wonders?

12 "¹⁶You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.

13 "In Your lovingkindness You have ¹⁷led the people whom You have ¹⁸redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them ¹⁹to Your holy habitation.

14 "²⁰The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

15 "Then the ²¹chiefs of Edom were dismayed; ²²The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; ²³All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

16 "²⁴Terror and dread fall upon them; ²⁵By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You ²⁶have purchased.

Exodus 15:6-16 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 3:20; Exodus 6:1
• 2. Psalms 118:15, 16
• 3. Exodus 14:27
• 4. Psalms 78:49, 50
• 5. Deuteronomy 4:24; Isaiah 5:24; Hebrews 12:29
• 6. Exodus 14:22, 29; Job 4:9
• 7. Psalms 78:13
• 8. Ex 14:5, 8, 9
• 9. Judges 5:30; Isaiah 53:12; Luke 11:22
• 10. Exodus 14:27, 28
• 11. Exodus 15:5
• 12. 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
• 13. Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8
• 14. Psalms 22:23
• 15. Psalms 72:18; Psalms 136:4
• 16. Exodus 15:6
• 17. Nehemiah 9:12; Psalms 77:20
• 18. Exodus 15:16; Psalms 77:15
• 19. Exodus 15:17; Psalms 78:54
• 20. Deuteronomy 2:25; Habakkuk 3:7
• 21. Genesis 36:15, 40
• 22. Numbers 22:3, 4
• 23. Josh 2:9, 11, 24; Joshua 5:1
• 24. Exodus 23:27; Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:9
• 25. Exodus 15:5, 6
• 26. Exodus 15:13; Psalms 74:2; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 31:11; Titus 2:14; 2 Peter 2:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "exaltation"
• [b]. Lit "soul"
• [c]. Lit "be filled with them"
• [d]. Or "dispossess, bring to ruin"
• [e]. Or "majestic"