Exodus 15

¹Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying , I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea .

²The Lord is my strength and my song , and he has become my salvation ; this is my God , and I will praise him , my father’s God , and I will exalt him.

³The Lord is a man of war ; the Lord is his name .

⁴Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea , and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea .

⁵The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone .

⁶Your right hand , O Lord, glorious in power , your right hand , O Lord, shatters the enemy .

⁷In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries ; you send out your fury ; it consumes them like stubble .

⁸At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up ; the floods stood up in a heap ; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea .

⁹The enemy said , I will pursue , I will overtake , I will divide the spoil , my desire shall have its fill of them . I will draw my sword ; my hand shall destroy them.

¹⁰You blew with your wind ; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters .

¹¹Who is like you , O Lord, among the gods ? Who is like you , majestic in holiness , awesome in glorious deeds , doing wonders ?

¹²You stretched out your right hand ; the earth swallowed them.

¹³You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed ; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode .

¹⁴The peoples have heard ; they tremble ; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia .

¹⁵Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed ; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab ; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away .

¹⁶Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm , they are still as a stone , till your people , O Lord, pass by , till the people pass by whom you have purchased .

¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain , the place , O Lord, which you have made for your abode , the sanctuary , O Lord , which your hands have established .

¹⁸The Lord will reign forever and ever .

¹⁹For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea , the 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 .

²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess , the sister of Aaron , took a tambourine in her hand , and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing .

²¹And Miriam sang to them: Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea .

²²Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea , and they went into the wilderness of Shur . They went three days in the wilderness and found no water .

²³When they came to Marah , they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter ; therefore it was named Marah .

²⁴And the people grumbled against Moses , saying , What shall we drink ?

²⁵And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log , and he threw it into the water , and the water became sweet . There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule , and there he tested them,

²⁶saying , If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God , and do that which is right in his eyes , and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes , I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians , for I am the Lord, your healer .

²⁷Then they came to Elim , where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees , and they encamped there by the water .