The Song of the Sea

¹Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, because he has won a magnificent victory! He has hurled the horse and its rider into the sea. ²The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare a dwelling for him; my father's God, and I will exalt him. ³The LORD is a warrior. The LORD is his name. ⁴He hurled Pharaoh's chariots and army into the sea. Pharaoh's finest officers drowned in the Red Sea. ⁵The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. ⁶Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy to pieces. ⁷In the greatness of your majesty, you have overthrown those who rose up against you. You sent forth your wrath, which consumed them like stubble. ⁸With a blast from your nostrils, the waters piled up. The rushing currents stood firm like a wall, and the deep waters froze solid in the heart of the sea. ⁹The enemy said, 'I will pursue them. I will overtake them. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, and my hand will destroy them.' ¹⁰But you blew with your wind, and the sea crashed over them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you — glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? ¹²You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed them. ¹³In your mercy, you have led the people you redeemed. In your strength, you have guided them to your holy dwelling place. ¹⁴The people will hear and be afraid; sorrow will seize the inhabitants of Palestina. ¹⁵The leaders of Edom will be amazed; the mighty men of Moab will tremble; all the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away. ¹⁶Terror and dread will fall on them. The power of your arm will make them freeze like stone — until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you have purchased pass by. ¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain that is your inheritance — the place, O LORD, that you have made as your dwelling, the sanctuary that your own hands have established. ¹⁸The LORD will reign forever and ever!" ¹⁹For Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea. ²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, grabbed a tambourine, and all the women followed her out with tambourines, dancing. ²¹Miriam sang out to them, "Sing to the LORD, because he has won a magnificent victory! He has hurled the horse and its rider into the sea."