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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 15 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/14.htm" title="Exodus 14">◄</a> Exodus 15 <a href="../exodus/16.htm" title="Exodus 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Song of Moses</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“I will sing to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for he has triumphed gloriously;</span><br /><span class="indent">the horse and his rider<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or its chariot; also verse 21">a</a></sup></span> he has thrown into the sea.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is my strength and my song,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he has become my salvation;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">this is my God, and I will praise him,</span><br /><span class="indent">my father’s God, and I will exalt him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is a man of war;</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is his name.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The floods covered them;</span><br /><span class="indent">they went down into the depths like a stone.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your right hand, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, glorious in power,</span><br /><span class="indent">your right hand, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, shatters the enemy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;</span><br /><span class="indent">you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;</span><br /><span class="indent">the floods stood up in a heap;</span><br /><span class="indent">the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake,</span><br /><span class="indent">I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.</span><br /><span class="indent">I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;</span><br /><span class="indent">they sank like lead in the mighty waters.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Who is like you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, among the gods?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who is like you, majestic in holiness,</span><br /><span class="indent">awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You stretched out your right hand;</span><br /><span class="indent">the earth swallowed them.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The peoples have heard; they tremble;</span><br /><span class="indent">pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;</span><br /><span class="indent">trembling seizes the leaders of Moab;</span><br /><span class="indent">all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Terror and dread fall upon them;</span><br /><span class="indent">because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">till your people, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, pass by,</span><br /><span class="indent">till the people pass by whom you have purchased.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,</span><br /><span class="indent">the place, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which you have made for your abode,</span><br /><span class="indent">the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will reign forever and ever.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Miriam sang to them:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Sing to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for he has triumphed gloriously;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Bitter Water Made Sweet</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Marah means bitterness">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he cried to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> showed him a log,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or tree">c</a></sup></span> and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.</p><p class="regular">There the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">d</a></sup></span> made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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 diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, your healer.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>its chariot</i>; also verse 21<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <i class="catch-word">Marah</i> means <i>bitterness</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i>tree</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Hebrew <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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