Exodus 15

¹Then Moses sang—and the sons of Israel—this song to YHWH, and they spoke, saying: “I will sing to YHWH, for He has greatly triumphed; the horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.

²My strength and song is YAH, and He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise Him, God of My father, and I will exalt Him.

³YHWH is a man of war; YHWH is His name.

⁴The chariots of Pharaoh and his army He has cast into the sea, and the choice of his captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

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

⁶Your right hand, O YHWH, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O YHWH, shatters the enemy.

⁷And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those rising against You. You send forth Your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.

⁸And by the breath of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; the flowing waters stood upright like a heap; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be filled with them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

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

¹¹Who is like You among the gods, O YHWH? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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

¹³You have led forth in Your loving devotion the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.

¹⁴Peoples heard; they are troubled. Anguish seized those dwelling in Philistia.

¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; the mighty men of Moab; trembling seized them; all those dwelling in Canaan melted away.

¹⁶Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of Your arm they will be as still as a stone, until Your people pass over, O YHWH, until the people whom You have purchased pass over.

¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance—the place for Your own dwelling, which You have made, O YHWH, the sanctuary, O Lord, that Your hands have established.

¹⁸YHWH shall reign forever and ever.”

¹⁹For the horses of Pharaoh went in, with his chariots and with his horsemen, into the sea, and YHWH brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the sons of Israel walked on the dry land in the midst of the sea.

²⁰And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

²¹And Miriam answered them, “Sing to YHWH, for He has greatly triumphed; the horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.”

²²And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

²³And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. (Upon thus its name was called Marah.)

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

²⁵And he cried out to YHWH, and YHWH showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.

²⁶And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and you give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes; all of the diseases that I have brought on Egypt I will not put on you, for I am YHWH who heals you.”

²⁷And they came to Elim, and there were two and ten wells of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters.