Exodus 15 - New International Version (NIV)

The Song of Moses and Miriam

15 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song(A) to the Lord:

“I will sing(B) to the Lord,
for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver(C)
he has hurled into the sea.(D)

2 “The Lord is my strength(E) and my defense[a];
he has become my salvation.(F)
He is my God,(G) and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt(H) him.
3 The Lord is a warrior;(I)
the Lord is his name.(J)
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his army(K)
he has hurled into the sea.
The best of Pharaoh’s officers
are drowned in the Red Sea.[b]
5 The deep waters(L) have covered them;
they sank to the depths like a stone.(M)
6 Your right hand,(N) Lord,
was majestic in power.
Your right hand,(O) Lord,
shattered(P) the enemy.

7 “In the greatness of your majesty(Q)
you threw down those who opposed you.
You unleashed your burning anger;(R)
it consumed(S) them like stubble.
8 By the blast of your nostrils(T)
the waters piled up.(U)
The surging waters stood up like a wall;(V)
the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.(W)
9 The enemy boasted,
‘I will pursue,(X) I will overtake them.
I will divide the spoils;(Y)
I will gorge myself on them.
I will draw my sword
and my hand will destroy them.’
10 But you blew with your breath,(Z)
and the sea covered them.
They sank like lead
in the mighty waters.(AA)
11 Who among the gods
is like you,(AB) Lord?
Who is like you—
majestic in holiness,(AC)
awesome in glory,(AD)
working wonders?(AE)

12 “You stretch out(AF) your right hand,
and the earth swallows your enemies.(AG)
13 In your unfailing love you will lead(AH)
the people you have redeemed.(AI)
In your strength you will guide them
to your holy dwelling.(AJ)
14 The nations will hear and tremble;(AK)
anguish(AL) will grip the people of Philistia.(AM)
15 The chiefs(AN) of Edom(AO) will be terrified,
the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling,(AP)
the people[c] of Canaan will melt(AQ) away;
16 terror(AR) and dread will fall on them.
By the power of your arm
they will be as still as a stone(AS)—
until your people pass by, Lord,
until the people you bought[d](AT) pass by.(AU)
17 You will bring(AV) them in and plant(AW) them
on the mountain(AX) of your inheritance—
the place, Lord, you made for your dwelling,(AY)
the sanctuary,(AZ) Lord, your hands established.

18 “The Lord reigns
for ever and ever.”(BA)

19 When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and horsemen[e] went into the sea,(BB) the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.(BC) 20 Then Miriam(BD) the prophet,(BE) Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels(BF) and dancing.(BG) 21 Miriam sang(BH) to them:

“Sing to the Lord,
for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver(BI)
he has hurled into the sea.”(BJ)

The Waters of Marah and Elim

22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert(BK) of Shur.(BL) For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.(BM) 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[f](BN)) 24 So the people grumbled(BO) against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”(BP)

25 Then Moses cried out(BQ) to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw(BR) it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.

There the Lord issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.(BS) 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep(BT) all his decrees,(BU) I will not bring on you any of the diseases(BV) I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals(BW) you.”

27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped(BX) there near the water.

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 15:2 Or song
  2. Exodus 15:4 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verse 22
  3. Exodus 15:15 Or rulers
  4. Exodus 15:16 Or created
  5. Exodus 15:19 Or charioteers
  6. Exodus 15:23 Marah means bitter.

Cross references

  1. Exodus 15:1 : Nu 21:17; Jdg 5:1; 2Sa 22:1; 1Ch 16:9; Job 36:24; Ps 59:16; 105:2; Rev 15:3
  2. Exodus 15:1 : Jdg 5:3; Ps 13:6; 21:13; 27:6; 61:8; 104:33; 106:12; Isa 12:5, 6; 42:10; 44:23
  3. Exodus 15:1 : Dt 11:4; Ps 76:6; Jer 51:21
  4. Exodus 15:1 : S Ex 14:27
  5. Exodus 15:2 : Ps 18:1; 59:17
  6. Exodus 15:2 : S Ge 45:7; Ex 14:13; Ps 18:2, 46; 25:5; 27:1; 62:2; 118:14; Isa 12:2; 33:2; Jnh 2:9; Hab 3:18
  7. Exodus 15:2 : S Ge 28:21
  8. Exodus 15:2 : Dt 10:21; 2Sa 22:47; Ps 22:3; 30:1; 34:3; 35:27; 99:5; 103:19; 107:32; 108:5; 109:1; 118:28; 145:11; 148:14; Isa 24:15; 25:1; Jer 17:14; Da 4:37
  9. Exodus 15:3 : S Ex 14:14; Rev 19:11
  10. Exodus 15:3 : S Ex 3:15
  11. Exodus 15:4 : Ex 14:6-7; Jer 51:21
  12. Exodus 15:5 : S Ex 14:28
  13. Exodus 15:5 : ver 10; Ne 9:11
  14. Exodus 15:6 : Ps 16:11; 17:7; 21:8; 63:8; 74:11; 77:10; 89:13; 98:1; 118:15; 138:7
  15. Exodus 15:6 : S Ex 3:20; S Job 40:14
  16. Exodus 15:6 : Nu 24:8; 1Sa 2:10; Ps 2:9
  17. Exodus 15:7 : Dt 33:26; Ps 150:2
  18. Exodus 15:7 : Ps 2:5; 78:49-50; Jer 12:13; 25:38
  19. Exodus 15:7 : Ex 24:17; Dt 4:24; 9:3; Ps 18:8; 59:13; Heb 12:29
  20. Exodus 15:8 : S Ex 14:21; Ps 18:15
  21. Exodus 15:8 : Jos 3:13; Ps 78:13; Isa 43:16
  22. Exodus 15:8 : S Ex 14:22
  23. Exodus 15:8 : Ps 46:2
  24. Exodus 15:9 : Ex 14:5-9; Dt 28:45; Ps 7:5; La 1:3
  25. Exodus 15:9 : Jdg 5:30; Isa 9:3; 53:12; Lk 11:22
  26. Exodus 15:10 : Job 4:9; 15:30; Isa 11:4; 30:33; 40:7
  27. Exodus 15:10 : ver 5; Ne 9:11; Ps 29:3; 32:6; 77:19
  28. Exodus 15:11 : S Ex 8:10; Ps 77:13; S Isa 46:5
  29. Exodus 15:11 : Lev 19:2; 1Sa 2:2; 1Ch 16:29; Ps 99:3; 110:3; Isa 6:3; Rev 4:8
  30. Exodus 15:11 : S Ex 14:4; Ps 4:2; 8:1; 26:8; Isa 35:2; 40:5
  31. Exodus 15:11 : S Ex 3:20
  32. Exodus 15:12 : S Ex 7:5
  33. Exodus 15:12 : Nu 16:32; 26:10; Dt 11:6; Ps 106:17
  34. Exodus 15:13 : Ne 9:12; Ps 77:20
  35. Exodus 15:13 : S Ex 6:6; Job 33:28; Ps 71:23; 106:10; Isa 1:27; 41:14; 43:14; 44:22-24; 51:10; 63:9; Tit 2:14
  36. Exodus 15:13 : ver 17; Ps 68:16; 76:2; 78:54
  37. Exodus 15:14 : ver 16; Ex 23:27; Dt 2:25; Jos 2:9; 5:1; 9:24; 1Sa 4:7; Est 8:17; Ps 48:6; 96:9; 99:1; 114:7; Eze 38:20
  38. Exodus 15:14 : Isa 13:8
  39. Exodus 15:14 : Ps 83:7
  40. Exodus 15:15 : S Ge 36:15
  41. Exodus 15:15 : Dt 2:4
  42. Exodus 15:15 : Nu 22:3; Ps 114:7
  43. Exodus 15:15 : Jos 2:9, 24
  44. Exodus 15:16 : S ver 14; S Ge 35:5
  45. Exodus 15:16 : 1Sa 25:37
  46. Exodus 15:16 : Ps 74:2; 2Pe 2:1
  47. Exodus 15:16 : Dt 2:4
  48. Exodus 15:17 : Ex 23:20; 32:34; 33:12
  49. Exodus 15:17 : 2Sa 7:10; Ps 44:2; 80:8, 15; Isa 5:2; 60:21; Jer 2:21; 11:17; 24:6; Am 9:15
  50. Exodus 15:17 : Dt 33:19; Ps 2:6; 3:4; 15:1; 78:54, 68; 133:3; Da 9:16; Joel 2:1; Ob 1:16; Zep 3:11
  51. Exodus 15:17 : S ver 13; Ps 132:13-14
  52. Exodus 15:17 : Ps 78:69; 114:2
  53. Exodus 15:18 : S Ge 21:33; Ps 9:7; 29:10; 55:19; 66:7; 80:1; 102:12; 145:13; La 5:19
  54. Exodus 15:19 : S Ex 14:28
  55. Exodus 15:19 : S Ex 14:22
  56. Exodus 15:20 : ver 21; Ex 2:4; Nu 12:1; 20:1; 26:59; 1Ch 4:17; 6:3
  57. Exodus 15:20 : Jdg 4:4; 2Ki 22:14; 2Ch 34:22; Ne 6:14; Isa 8:3; Eze 13:17
  58. Exodus 15:20 : S Ge 31:27; 1Sa 18:6; Ps 81:2; Isa 30:32
  59. Exodus 15:20 : S Ge 4:21; Jdg 11:34; 21:21; 1Sa 18:6; 2Sa 6:5, 14, 16; Ps 30:11; 149:3; 150:4; SS 6:13; Jer 31:4, 13
  60. Exodus 15:21 : 1Sa 18:7
  61. Exodus 15:21 : Am 2:15; Hag 2:22
  62. Exodus 15:21 : S Ex 14:27
  63. Exodus 15:22 : Ps 78:52
  64. Exodus 15:22 : S Ge 16:7
  65. Exodus 15:22 : Ex 17:1, 3; Nu 20:2, 5; 33:14; Ps 107:5
  66. Exodus 15:23 : Nu 33:8; Ru 1:20
  67. Exodus 15:24 : S Ex 14:12; 16:2; 7:3; Nu 14:2; Jos 9:18; Ps 78:18, 42; 106:13, 25; Eze 16:43
  68. Exodus 15:24 : Mt 6:31
  69. Exodus 15:25 : S Ex 14:10
  70. Exodus 15:25 : 2Ki 2:21; 4:41; 6:6
  71. Exodus 15:25 : S Ge 22:1; Jdg 3:4; Job 23:10; Ps 81:7; Isa 48:10
  72. Exodus 15:26 : Ex 23:22; Dt 11:13; 15:5; 28:1; Jer 11:6
  73. Exodus 15:26 : Ex 19:5-6; 20:2-17; Dt 7:12
  74. Exodus 15:26 : Dt 7:15; 28:27, 58-60; 32:39; 1Sa 5:6; Ps 30:2; 41:3-4; 103:3
  75. Exodus 15:26 : Ex 23:25-26; 2Ki 20:5; Ps 25:11; 103:3; 107:20; Jer 30:17; Hos 11:3
  76. Exodus 15:27 : Nu 33:9

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