The Song of Moses
1 Then Moses and the people of Israel Ps. 106:12;[Judg. 5:1;2 Sam. 22:1] sang this song to the Lord, saying,
ver. 21"I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider15:1 Or its chariot; also verse 21 he has thrown into the sea.
2 Ps. 18:1,2;59:17;118:14;140:7;Isa. 12:2The Lord is my strength and my Deut. 10:21;Ps. 109:1song,
and he has become Ps. 18:46;Hab. 3:18my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
ch. 3:6,15,16my father’s God, and 2 Sam. 22:47;Ps. 34:3;99:5,9;118:28;145:1;Isa. 25:1I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is Ps. 24:8;Rev. 19:11a man of war;
ch. 3:15;6:3;Ps. 83:18;Isa. 42:8;Mal. 3:6the Lord is his name.
4 ch. 14:28"Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen ch. 14:7officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
5 The ver. 10;ch. 14:28floods covered them;
they Neh. 9:11went down into the depths like a stone.
6 ver. 12;Ps. 118:15,16;Isa. 51:9Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, Ps. 2:9;Rev. 2:27shatters the enemy.
7 In the Deut. 33:26greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it [Isa. 5:24;47:14;Mal. 4:1]consumes them like stubble.
8 At the ch. 14:21,22;2 Sam. 22:16;Job 4:9;Ps. 18:15;[2 Thess. 2:8] blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the Ps. 78:13;[Josh. 3:16;Hab. 3:10]floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ch. 14:9‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I Gen. 49:27;Judg. 5:30;Isa. 53:12;Luke 11:22will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You ch. 14:21;[Isa. 11:15;40:24] blew with your wind; the ver. 5;ch. 14:28sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Deut. 3:24;1 Sam. 2:2;2 Sam. 7:22;1 Kgs. 8:23;2 Chr. 6:14;Jer. 10:6"Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in [Isa. 6:3;Rev. 4:8] glorious deeds, Ps. 77:14doing wonders?
12 You stretched out ver. 6your right hand;
the earth swallowed them.
13 "You have Ps. 77:20led in your steadfast love the people whom Ps. 77:15you have redeemed;
you have Ps. 78:54guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
14 Num. 14:14;Deut. 2:25;Josh. 2:9,10;9:24The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Now are the chiefs of Edom [Deut. 2:4] dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of Num. 22:3Moab;
Josh. 2:9,11,24;5:1all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16 Terror and Deut. 2:25;11:25dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still 1 Sam. 25:37as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom Ps. 74:2;[1 Pet. 2:9]you have purchased.
17 You will bring them in and Ps. 44:2;80:8;[Jer. 32:41] plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
Ps. 78:54;132:13,14the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
18 Ps. 10:16;29:10;45:6;146:10;Rev. 11:15The Lord will reign forever and ever."
19 For when ch. 14:23the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, ch. 14:28,29the 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. 20 Then Mic. 6:4Miriam [Judg. 4:4;2 Kgs. 22:14;Neh. 6:14;Luke 2:36] the prophetess, the ch. 2:4;Num. 26:59sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and Judg. 11:34;1 Sam. 18:6;Ps. 68:25;149:3;150:4all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them:
ver. 1"Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
Bitter Water Made Sweet
22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Gen. 16:7;25:18;1 Sam. 15:7Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to [Ruth 1:20]Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.15:23 Marah means bitterness24 And the people ch. 16:2;17:3grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 And he ch. 14:10;17:4cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,15:25 Or tree and he [2 Kgs. 2:21;4:41] threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the Lord15:25 Hebrew he made for them a statute and a rule, and there he ch. 16:4;Deut. 8:2,16;Judg. 2:22;3:1,4;Ps. 66:10tested them, 26 saying, See Lev. 26:3-13;Deut. 7:12-15"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 Deut. 28:27,60diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, ch. 23:25;Ps. 103:3;147:3;Hos. 6:1your healer."
27 Then Num. 33:9they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.