The Song of Moses
1 Then Moses and the people of Israel
1sang this song to the LORD, saying,
2"I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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3The LORD is my strength and my
4song, and he has become
5my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him,
6my father's God, and
7I will exalt him.
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The LORD is
8a man of war;
9the LORD is his name.
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10"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen
11officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
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The
12floods covered them; they
13went down into the depths like a stone.
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14Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD,
15shatters the enemy.
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In the
16greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it
17consumes them like stubble.
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At the
18blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the
19floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
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The enemy said,
20'I will pursue, I will overtake, I
21will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'
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You
22blew with your wind; the
23sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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24"Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in
25glorious deeds,
26doing wonders?
12
You stretched out
27your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
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"You have
28led in your steadfast love the people whom
29you have redeemed; you have
30guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
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31The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
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Now are the chiefs of Edom
32dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of
33Moab;
34all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
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Terror and
35dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still
36as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom
37you have purchased.
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You will bring them in and
38plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode,
39the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
18
40The LORD will reign forever and ever."
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For when
41the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea,
42the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
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Then
43Miriam
44the prophetess, the
45sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and
46all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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And Miriam sang to them:
47"Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."