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Exodus 15:2 Context: Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
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class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“The deeps cover them;<br> They went down into the depths like a stone. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“Your right hand, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, is majestic in power,<br> Your right hand, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, shatters the enemy. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;<br> You send forth Your burning anger, <i>and</i> it consumes them as chaff. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,<br> The flowing waters stood up like a heap;<br> The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;<br> My desire shall be gratified against them;<br> I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;<br> They sank like lead in the mighty waters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>“Who is like You among the gods, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>?<br> Who is like You, majestic in holiness,<br> Awesome in praises, working wonders? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“You stretched out Your right hand,<br> The earth swallowed them. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed;<br> In Your strength You have guided <i>them</i> to Your holy habitation. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“The peoples have heard, they tremble;<br> Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;<br> The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;<br> All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“Terror and dread fall upon them;<br> By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone;<br> Until Your people pass over, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> Until the people pass over whom You have purchased. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,<br> The place, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, which You have made for Your dwelling,<br> The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“The L<font size="1">ORD</font> shall reign forever and ever.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Miriam answered them,<br> “Sing to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for He is highly exalted;<br> The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”<p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> Provides Water</i></b></font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Moses led 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Then he cried out to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> showed him a tree; and he threw <i>it</i> into the waters, and the waters became sweet.<br> There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, am your healer.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/15-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Then they came to Elim where there <i>were</i> twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/15.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/exodus/15.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my 锟紾od, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/15.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The LORD is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/15.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_5_he_hath_triumphed.htm">October 5. "He Hath Triumphed Gloriously" (Ex. xv. 1). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He hath triumphed gloriously" (Ex. xv. 1). Beloved, God calls us to victory. Have any of you given up the conflict, have you surrendered? Have you said, "This thing is too much"? Have you said, "I can give up anything else but this"? If you have, you are not in the land of promise. God means you should accept every difficult thing that comes in your life. He has started with you, knowing every difficulty. And if you dare to let Him, He will carry you through not only to be conquerors, but "more <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_5_he_hath_triumphed.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_30_if_thou_wilt.htm">July 30. "If Thou Wilt Diligently Hearken unto the Voice of the Lord Thy God and Wilt Keep all his Statutes" (Ex. xv. 26). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"If thou wilt diligently hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt keep all His statutes" (Ex. xv. 26). Sometimes people fail because they have not confidence in the Physician. The very first requirement of this Doctor is, that you trust Him, and trust Him implicitly, so implicitly that you go forward on His bare word, and act as if you had received His healing the moment you claimed His promise. But no one would expect to be healed by an earthly doctor as soon as they obeyed his directions. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_30_if_thou_wilt.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_23_i_am_the.htm">September 23. "I am the Lord that Healeth Thee" (Ex. xv. 26). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I am the Lord that healeth thee" (Ex. xv. 26). It is very reasonable that God should expect us to trust Him for our bodies as well as our souls, for if our faith is not practical enough to bring us temporal relief, how can we be educated for real dependence upon God for anything that involves serious risk? It is all very well to talk about trusting God for the distant and future prospect of salvation after death! There is scarcely a sinner in a Christian land that does not trust to be saved some <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_23_i_am_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_ultimate_hope.htm">The Ultimate Hope</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Thine inheritance....'--EXODUS xv. 17. I. The lesson taught by each present deliverance and kindness is that we shall be brought to His rest at last. (a) Daily mercies are a pledge and a pattern of His continuous acts. The confidence that we shall be kept is based upon no hard doctrine of final perseverance, but on the assurance that God is always the same, like the sunshine which has poured out for all these millenniums and still rushes <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_ultimate_hope.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/marah.htm">Marah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25. And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet....'--EXODUS xv. 23-25. I. The time of reaching Marah--just after the Red Sea. The Israelites were encamped for a few days on the shore to shake themselves together, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/marah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/sixth_day_holiness_and_glory.htm">Sixth Day. Holiness and Glory. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! among the gods? Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? Thou in Thy mercy hast led Thy people which Thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to the habitation of Thy holiness ... The holy place, O Lord, which Thy hands have established.' --Ex. xv. 11-17. In these words we have another step in advance in the revelation of Holiness. We have here for the first time Holiness predicated of God Himself. He <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/sixth_day_holiness_and_glory.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">Holy in Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/marah_or_the_bitter_waters.htm">Marah; Or, the Bitter Waters Sweetened</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. The text directs your attention, first of all, to THE EVILS OF THE WILDERNESS. We need not spend much time in thinking of these evils, because they throw themselves in our way often enough; and the tendency of our mind is unduly to exaggerate them. Notice that the perils and trials of the wilderness occur very early in the pilgrim life. It is a notion, I have no doubt, of very young Christians who still have the shell upon their heads and are scarce hatched, that their trials are over now that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/marah_or_the_bitter_waters.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/7_the_holiness_of_god.htm">The Holiness of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The next attribute is God's holiness. Exod 15:51. Glorious in holiness.' Holiness is the most sparkling jewel of his crown; it is the name by which God is known. Psa 111:1. Holy and reverend is his name.' He is the holy One.' Job 6:60. Seraphims cry, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.' Isa 6:6. His power makes him mighty, his holiness makes him glorious. God's holiness consists in his perfect love of righteousness, and abhorrence of evil. Of purer eyes than <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/7_the_holiness_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_and_others_second_series/marah.htm">Marah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet."--Exod. xv. 25. Richard Rolle, 1349. tr., Emma Frances Bevan, 1899 Many sorrows hard and bitter, Many comforts sweet and soft; Thus my cry as joyful singing Evermore shall mount aloft. Song of marvellous rejoicing As in Heaven the blessed sing, For the love of Christ has filled me With His sweetest plenishing. Joy no thought of man conceiveth, Howsoever deep his lore; None can tell but he who hath it, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_and_others_second_series/marah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen and Others (Second Series)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_13_the_bitter_waters.htm">The Bitter Waters. Ex 15:23-15</a><br></span><span class="snippet"> <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_13_the_bitter_waters.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Olney Hymns</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_xxvi_to_theoctista_patrician.htm">Epistle xxvi. To Theoctista, Patrician</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Theoctista, Patrician [1704] Gregory to Theoctista, &c. That your Excellency, though placed in so great a tumult of affairs, is full of the fruitfulness of the sacred word, and incessantly pants after eternal joys, for this I give great thanks to Almighty God, in that in you I see fulfilled what is written of the elect fathers, But the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea (Exod. xv. 19). But on the other hand, I am come into the depth of the sea, and the storm hath <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_xxvi_to_theoctista_patrician.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Gregory the Great—</span><span class="citation2">the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../exodus/15-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 15:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 15:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/15-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 15:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 15:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/exodus/15-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 120 x 600 new */ google_ad_slot = "2486977537"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 200 x 200 Parallel Bible */ google_ad_slot = "7676643937"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>