Exodus 15:1–21
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying.
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Then 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.
The 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.
The Lord is a man of war;
the Lord is his name.
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he
cast into the sea;
and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
The floods cover them;
they went down into the depths like a stone.
Thy right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
thy right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
In the greatness of thy majesty thou
overthrowest thy adversaries;
thou sendest forth thy fury, it
consumes them like stubble.
At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up,
the floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The 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.’
Thou didst blow with thy wind,
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