Chapter 15
1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh , and said, " I will sing to Yahweh , for he has triumphed gloriously . He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea .
2 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 .
3 Yahweh is a man of war . Yahweh is his name .
4 He has cast Pharaoh ’s chariots and his army into the sea . His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea .
5 The deeps cover them . They went down into the depths like a stone.
6 Your right hand , Yahweh , is glorious in power . Your right hand , Yahweh , dashes the enemy in pieces .
7 In the greatness of your excellency , you overthrow those who rise up against you . You send out your wrath . It consumes them as stubble .
8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up . The floods stood upright as a heap . The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea .
9 The enemy said, ‘ I will pursue . I will overtake . I will divide the plunder . My desire will be satisfied on them . I will draw my sword . My hand will destroy them .’
10 You blew with your wind . The sea covered them . They sank like lead in the mighty waters .
11 Who is like you , Yahweh , among the gods? Who is like you , glorious in holiness , fearful in praises , doing wonders ?
12 You stretched out your right hand . The earth swallowed them .
13 " You , in your loving kindness , have led the people that you have redeemed . You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation .
14 The peoples have heard . They tremble . Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia .
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab . All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away .
16 Terror and dread falls on them . By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over , Yahweh , until the people you have purchased pass over .
17 You will bring them in , and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance , the place , Yahweh , which you have made for yourself to dwell in : the sanctuary , Lord , which your hands have established .
18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever ."
19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea , and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them ; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea .
20 Miriam the prophetess , the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances .
21 Miriam answered them , " Sing to Yahweh , for he has triumphed gloriously . He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea ."
22 Moses led Israel onward 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 .
23 When they came to Marah , they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah , for they were bitter . Therefore its name was called Marah .
24 The people murmured against Moses , saying, " What shall we drink ?"
25 Then he cried to Yahweh . Yahweh showed him a tree , and he threw it into the waters , and the waters were made sweet . There he made a statute and an ordinance for them , and there he tested them .
26 He said , " If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God ’s voice , and will do that which is right in his eyes , and will pay attention 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 am Yahweh who heals you ."
27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees . They encamped there by the waters .