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The Song of Moses and Israel

^1 (C1)Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this ^(F1)song to the LORD, singing,

"^(C2)I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously;
^(C3)The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.

² "^(C1)The LORD is my strength and my song,
And He has become my salvation;
^(C2)This is my God, and I will praise Him;
^(C3)My father's God, and I will ^(C4)exalt Him.

³ "^(C1)The LORD is a warrior;
^(C2)The LORD is His name.

⁴ "^(C1)Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea;
His chosen captains are drowned in the ^(F1)Red Sea.

⁵ "The deep water covers them;
^(C1)Clad in armor they sank into the depths like a stone.

⁶ "^(C1)Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power;
^(C2)Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

⁷ "In the greatness of Your majesty You ^(C1)overthrow and annihilate those adversaries who rise in rebellion against You;
^(C2)You send out Your fury, and it ^(C3)consumes them like chaff.

⁸ "^(C1)With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up,
^(C2)The flowing waters stood up like a mound;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

⁹ "^(C1)The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will ^(C2)divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied against them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall dispossess them and drive them out.'

¹⁰ "^(C1)You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
Clad in armor ^(C2)they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹ "^(C1)Who is like You among the gods, O LORD?
Who is like You, ^(C2)majestic in holiness,
^(C3)Awesome in splendor, ^(C4)working wonders?

¹² "^(C1)You stretched out Your right hand,
The ^(F1)sea swallowed them.

¹³ "You in Your lovingkindness and goodness have ^(C1)led the people whom You have ^(C2)redeemed;
In Your strength You have guided them with care to ^(C3)Your holy habitation.

¹⁴ "^(C1)The peoples have heard about You, they tremble;
Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

¹⁵ "Then the tribal ^(C1)chiefs of Edom were dismayed and horrified;
^(C2)The mighty leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
^(C3)All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away in despair—

^16 (C1)Terror and dread fall on them;
Because of ^(C2)the greatness of Your arm they are as still as a stone;
Until Your people pass by and into Canaan, O LORD,
Until the people pass by whom You ^(C3)have purchased.

¹⁷ "^(C1)You will bring them into the land of promise and ^(C2)plant them on the ^(C3)mountain (Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem) of Your inheritance,
^(C4)The place, O LORD, You have made for Your dwelling among them,
^(C5)The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

¹⁸ "^(C1)The LORD shall reign to eternity and beyond."

^19 (C1)For the horses of Pharaoh went with his war-chariots and his charioteers into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on ^(C2)dry land in the middle of the sea.

²⁰ Then ^(C1)Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron and Moses, took a ^(C2)timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her with timbrels and ^(C3)dancing. ^(VR1)21 Miriam answered them,

"^(C1)Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously and is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea."

The LORD Provides Water

^22 (C1)Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into ^(C2)the Wilderness of ^(C3)Shur; they went a distance of three days (about thirty-three miles) in the wilderness and found no water.²³ Then they came to ^(C1)Marah, but they could not drink its waters because they were ^(F1)bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter).²⁴ The people grew discontented and ^(C1)grumbled at Moses, saying, "What are we going to drink?"

²⁵ Then he ^(C1)cried to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him ^(C2)a tree, a branch of which he threw into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There the LORD ^(C3)made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there ^(F1)He ^(C4)tested them,²⁶ saying, "^(C1)If you will diligently listen and pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to ^(C2)His commandments, and keep foremost in your thoughts and actively obey all His precepts and statutes, then ^(C3)I will not put on you any of the diseases which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am ^(C4)the ^(F1)LORD who heals you."

²⁷ Then the children of Israel came to ^(C1)Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.