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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Exodus 15 New American Bible</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><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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch02015" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn02015" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span id="v02015001" class="ver">1</span>Then Moses and the Israelites sang<a id="ren02015001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015001-a">a</a> this song to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:<a id="rfn02015001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015001-1">*</a></p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">I will sing to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, for he is gloriously triumphant;</p> <p class="sl1">horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015002" class="ver">2</span>My strength and my refuge is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">and he has become my savior.<a id="ren02015002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl">This is my God, I praise him;</p> <p class="sl1">the God of my father, I extol him.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015003" class="ver">3</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is a warrior,</p> <p class="sl1"><span class="tetr">Lord</span> is his name!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015004" class="ver">4</span>Pharaoh’s chariots and army he hurled into the sea;</p> <p class="sl1">the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.<a id="rfn02015004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015004-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015005" class="ver">5</span>The flood waters covered them,</p> <p class="sl1">they sank into the depths like a stone.<a id="ren02015005-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015005-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015006" class="ver">6</span>Your right hand, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, magnificent in power,</p> <p class="sl1">your right hand, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, shattered the enemy.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015007" class="ver">7</span>In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries;</p> <p class="sl1">you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015008" class="ver">8</span>At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up,</p> <p class="sl1">the flowing waters stood like a mound,</p> <p class="sl1">the flood waters foamed in the midst of the sea.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015009" class="ver">9</span>The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them;</p> <p class="sl1">I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them;</p> <p class="sl1">I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015010" class="ver">10</span>When you blew with your breath, the sea covered them;</p> <p class="sl1">like lead they sank in the mighty waters.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015011" class="ver">11</span>Who is like you among the gods, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>?</p> <p class="sl1">Who is like you, magnificent among the holy ones?</p> <p class="sl">Awe-inspiring in deeds of renown, worker of wonders,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v02015012" class="ver">12</span>when you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015013" class="ver">13</span>In your love<a id="rfn02015013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015013-1">*</a> you led the people you redeemed;</p> <p class="sl1">in your strength you guided them to your holy dwelling.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015014" class="ver">14</span>The peoples heard and quaked;</p> <p class="sl1">anguish gripped the dwellers in Philistia.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015015" class="ver">15</span>Then were the chieftains of Edom dismayed,</p> <p class="sl1">the nobles of Moab seized by trembling;</p> <p class="sl">All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away;</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v02015016" class="ver">16</span><a id="ren02015016-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015016-d">d</a> terror and dread fell upon them.</p> <p class="sl">By the might of your arm they became silent like stone,</p> <p class="sl1">while your people, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, passed over,</p> <p class="sl1">while the people whom you created passed over.<a id="rfn02015016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015016-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v02015017" class="ver">17</span>You brought them in, you planted them</p> <p class="sl1">on the mountain that is your own—</p> <p class="sl">The place you made the base of your throne, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">the sanctuary, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your hands established.</p> <p class="sll"><span id="v02015018" class="ver">18</span>May the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> reign forever and ever!</p> </div> <p><span id="v02015019" class="ver">19</span>When Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen entered the sea, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> made the waters of the sea flow back upon them, though the Israelites walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.<a id="ren02015019-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015019-e">e</a> <span id="v02015020" class="ver">20</span>Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, while all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing; <span id="v02015021" class="ver">21</span>and she responded<a id="rfn02015021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015021-1">*</a> to them:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">Sing to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, for he is gloriously triumphant;</p> <p class="sl1">horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.<a id="ren02015021-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015021-f">f</a></p> </div> <h1 class="bksect">V. <span class="ac">The Journey in the Wilderness to Sinai</span></h1> <p class="paft"><span class="hemb">At Marah and Elim.</span> <span id="v02015022" class="ver">22</span><a id="ren02015022-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015022-g">g</a> Then Moses led Israel forward from the Red Sea,<a id="rfn02015022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02015022-1">*</a> and they marched out to the wilderness of Shur. After traveling for three days through the wilderness without finding water, <span id="v02015023" class="ver">23</span>they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink its water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah. <span id="v02015024" class="ver">24</span>As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” <span id="v02015025" class="ver">25</span>he cried out to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, who pointed out to him a piece of wood. When he threw it into the water, the water became fresh.<a id="ren02015025-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015025-h">h</a></p> <p>It was here that God, in making statutes and ordinances for them, put them to the test. <span id="v02015026" class="ver">26</span>He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians;<a id="ren02015026-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015026-i">i</a> for I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, am your healer.</p> <p><span id="v02015027" class="ver">27</span>Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.<a id="ren02015027-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02015027-j">j</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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