Exodus 15:14

THE MESSAGE

When people heard, they were scared; Philistines writhed and trembled; Yes, even the head men in Edom were shaken, and the big bosses in Moab. Everybody in Canaan panicked and fell faint. Dread and terror sent them reeling. Before your brandished right arm they were struck dumb like a stone, Until your people crossed over and entered, O God , until the people you made crossed over and entered. You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your heritage, The place where you live, the place you made, Your sanctuary, Master, that you established with your own hands. Let God rule forever, for eternity!

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Peleshet.

King James Version
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Lexham English Bible
Peoples heard; they trembled; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

New Century Version
"The other nations will hear this and tremble with fear; terror will take hold of the Philistines.

New English Translation
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Amplified Bible
"The peoples have heard [about You], they tremble; Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

New American Standard Bible
"The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The people shal heare and be afraide: sorow shal come vpon the inhabitants of Palestina.

Legacy Standard Bible
The peoples have heard, they tremble;Anguish has seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

Contemporary English Version
Nations learned of this and trembled— Philistines shook with horror.

Complete Jewish Bible
The peoples have heard, and they tremble; anguish takes hold of those living in P'leshet;

Darby Translation
The peoples heard it, they were afraid: A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The other nations will hear this story, and they will be frightened. The Philistines will shake with fear.

English Standard Version
The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

George Lamsa Translation
The people heard and they trembled; fear took hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Good News Translation
The nations have heard, and they tremble with fear; the Philistines are seized with terror.

Christian Standard Bible®
When the peoples hear, they will shudder;anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Literal Translation
Peoples heard; they tremble; trembling seized the dwellers of Philistia.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan ye nacions herde this, they raged, sorowe came vpon the Philistynes.

American Standard Version
The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Bible in Basic English
Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The nations shal heare, & be afraide, sorowe shall come vpon Palestina.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

King James Version (1611)
The people shall heare, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Phylistines.

English Revised Version
The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Berean Standard Bible
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Puplis stieden, and weren wroothe; sorewis helden the dwelleris of Filistiym.

Young's Literal Translation
Peoples have heard, they are troubled; Pain hath seized inhabitants of Philistia.

Update Bible Version
The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Webster's Bible Translation
The people shall hear, [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

World English Bible
The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

New King James Version
"The people will hear and be afraid; Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

New Living Translation
The peoples hear and tremble; anguish grips those who live in Philistia.

New Life Bible
The nations have heard of it, and they shake in fear. Pain has come upon the people of Philistia.

New Revised Standard
The peoples heard, they trembled; pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Peoples have heard they tremble, - A pang, hath seized the dwellers of Philistia:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

Revised Standard Version
The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Contextual Overview

¹Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to God , giving voice together, I'm singing my heart out to God —what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea. God is my strength, God is my song, and, yes! God is my salvation. This is the kind of God I have and I'm telling the world! This is the God of my father— I'm spreading the news far and wide! God is a fighter, pure God , through and through. Pharaoh's chariots and army he dumped in the sea, The elite of his officers he drowned in the Red Sea. Wild ocean waters poured over them; they sank like a rock in the deep blue sea. Your strong right hand, God , shimmers with power; your strong right hand shatters the enemy. In your mighty majesty you smash your upstart enemies, You let loose your hot anger and burn them to a crisp. At a blast from your nostrils the waters piled up; Tumbling streams dammed up, wild oceans curdled into a swamp. ⁹ The enemy spoke, "I'll pursue, I'll hunt them down, I'll divide up the plunder, I'll glut myself on them; I'll pull out my sword, my fist will send them reeling." ¹⁰You blew with all your might and the sea covered them. They sank like a lead weight in the majestic waters. Who compares with you among gods, O God ? Who compares with you in power, in holy majesty, In awesome praises, wonder-working God? ¹²You stretched out your right hand and the Earth swallowed them up. But the people you redeemed, you led in merciful love; You guided them under your protection to your holy pasture. ¹⁴When people heard, they were scared; Philistines writhed and trembled; Yes, even the head men in Edom were shaken, and the big bosses in Moab. Everybody in Canaan panicked and fell faint. Dread and terror sent them reeling. Before your brandished right arm they were struck dumb like a stone, Until your people crossed over and entered, O God , until the people you made crossed over and entered. You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your heritage, The place where you live, the place you made, Your sanctuary, Master, that you established with your own hands. Let God rule forever, for eternity! ¹⁹ Yes, Pharaoh's horses and chariots and riders went into the sea and God turned the waters back on them; but the Israelites walked on dry land right through the middle of the sea. ²⁰Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine, and all the women followed her with tambourines, dancing. Miriam led them in singing, Sing to God — what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hear: Numbers 14:14, Numbers 22:5, Deuteronomy 2:4, Deuteronomy 2:5, Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:10, Joshua 9:24, Psalms 48:6

of Palestina: Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 14:31

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:16 - visited Exodus 10:1 - that I Exodus 14:4 - I will be Exodus 23:27 - my fear Deuteronomy 2:25 - General Joshua 5:1 - heard Joshua 9:9 - we have Joshua 10:2 - they feared Judges 7:14 - into his hand 1 Samuel 4:7 - were afraid 1 Samuel 6:6 - the Egyptians 1 Samuel 17:46 - all the earth 1 Kings 8:42 - For they shall 1 Chronicles 14:17 - the fear of him 2 Chronicles 17:10 - the fear 2 Chronicles 20:29 - they had heard Psalms 65:8 - afraid Isaiah 19:1 - the heart Isaiah 23:5 - at the Isaiah 33:13 - Hear Isaiah 41:5 - the ends Isaiah 64:2 - that the nations Jeremiah 33:9 - fear Ezekiel 27:28 - shake Ezekiel 30:4 - pain Ezekiel 32:10 - and they Micah 7:17 - they shall be Habakkuk 3:7 - saw the Romans 9:17 - that Revelation 15:4 - Who

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield. Your reward will be grand!"

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, " God , Master, what use are your gifts as long as I'm childless and Eliezer of Damascus is going to inherit everything?" Abram continued, "See, you've given me no children, and now a mere house servant is going to get it all."

Genesis 15:4
Then God 's Message came: "Don't worry, he won't be your heir; a son from your body will be your heir."

Genesis 15:5
Then he took him outside and said, "Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You're going to have a big family, Abram!"

Genesis 15:6
And he believed! Believed God ! God declared him "Set-Right-with-God."

Genesis 15:7
God continued, "I'm the same God who brought you from Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this land to own."

Genesis 15:9
God said, "Bring me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon."

Joshua 24:17
" God is our God! He brought up our ancestors from Egypt and from slave conditions. He did all those great signs while we watched. He has kept his eye on us all along the roads we've traveled and among the nations we've passed through. Just for us he drove out all the nations, Amorites and all, who lived in the land. "Count us in: We too are going to worship God . He's our God."

Psalms 51:4
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people shall hear, and be afraid,.... What follows from hence to the end of the song is plainly prophetic, a prediction of future events; and this clause respects the case of all the nations of the earth, who should hear the report of the plagues, brought upon the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, and of their being brought out of Egypt, and of their being led through the Red sea as on dry land, and of the destruction of Pharaoh and his host in it, which report would strike a panic in all that heard it, throughout the whole world; as well as of what the Lord would after this do for them in the wilderness, see Deuteronomy 2:25

sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina; which was adjoining to the land of Canaan, and through which in the common way their road lay to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the deliverance of Israel is associated the development of the national poetry, which finds its first and perfect expression in this magnificent hymn. It was sung by Moses and the people, an expression which evidently points to him as the author. That it was written at the time is an assertion expressly made in the text, and it is supported by the strongest internal evidence. In every age this song gave the tone to the poetry of Israel; especially at great critical epochs of deliverance: and in the book of Revelation Exodus 15:3 it is associated with the final triumph of the Church.

The division of the song into three parts is distinctly marked: Exodus 15:1-5; Exodus 15:6-10; Exodus 15:11-18 : each begins with an ascription of praise to God; each increases in length and varied imagery unto the triumphant close.

Exodus 15:1

He hath triumphed gloriously - Literally, He is gloriously glorious.

The horse and his rider - The word “rider” may include horseman, but applies properly to the charioteer.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and song - My strength and song is Jah. See Psalms 68:4. The name was chosen here by Moses to draw attention to the promise ratified by the name “I am.”

I will prepare Him an habitation - I will glorify Him. Our Authorized Version is open to serious objection, as suggesting a thought (namely, of erecting a temple) which could hardly have been in the mind of Moses at that time, and unsuited to the occasion.

Exodus 15:3

A man of war - Compare Psalms 24:8. The name has on this occasion a special fitness: man had no part in the victory; the battle was the Lord’s.

The Lord is his name - “Jah is His name.” See Exodus 15:2.

Exodus 15:4

Hath He cast - “Hurled,” as from a sling. See Exodus 14:27.

His chosen captains - See Exodus 14:7 note.

Exodus 15:5

As a stone - The warriors in chariots are always represented on the monuments with heavy coats of mail; the corslets of “chosen captains” consisted of plates of highly tempered bronze, with sleeves reaching nearly to the elbow, covering the whole body and the thighs nearly to the knee. The wearers must have sunk at once like a stone, or as we read in Exodus 5:10, like lumps of lead.

Exodus 15:7

Thy wrath - Literally, Thy burning, i. e. the fire of Thy wrath, a word chosen expressly with reference to the effect.

Exodus 15:8

The blast of God’s nostrils corresponds to the natural agency, the east wind Exodus 14:21, which drove the waters back: on the north the waters rose high, overhanging the sands, but kept back by the strongwind: on the south they laid in massive rollers, kept down by the same agency in the deep bed of the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said - The abrupt, gasping utterances; the haste, cupidity and ferocity of the Egyptians; the confusion and disorder of their thoughts, belong to the highest order of poetry. They enable us to realize the feelings which induced Pharaoh and his host to pursue the Israelites over the treacherous sandbanks.

Exodus 15:10

Thou didst blow with thy wind - Notice the solemn majesty of these few words, in immediate contrast with the tumult and confusion of the preceding verse. In Exodus 14:28, we read only, “the waters returned,” here we are told that it was because the wind blew. A sudden change in the direction of the wind would bring back at once the masses of water heaped up on the north.

They sank as lead - See the note at Exodus 15:5.

Exodus 15:11

Among the gods - Compare Psalms 86:8; Deuteronomy 32:16-17. A Hebrew just leaving the land in which polytheism attained its highest development, with gigantic statues and temples of incomparable grandeur, might well on such an occasion dwell upon this consummation of the long series of triumphs by which the “greatness beyond compare” of Yahweh was once for all established.

Exodus 15:13

Thy holy habitation - Either Palestine, regarded as the land of promise, sanctified by manifestations of God to the Patriarchs, and destined to be both the home of God’s people, and the place where His glory and purposes were to be perfectly revealed: or Mount Moriah.

Exodus 15:14

The inhabitants of Palestina - i. e. the country of the Philistines. They were the first who would expect an invasion, and the first whose district would have been invaded but for the faintheartedness of the Israelites.

Exodus 15:15

The dukes of Edom - See Genesis 36:15. It denotes the chieftains, not the kings of Edom.

The mighty men of Moab - The physical strength and great stature of the Moabites are noted in other passages: see Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:41.

Canaan - The name in this, as in many passages of Genesis, designates the whole of Palestine: and is used of course with reference to the promise to Abraham. It was known to the Egyptians, and occurs frequently on the monuments as Pa-kanana, which applies, if not to the whole of Palestine, yet to the northern district under Lebanon, which the Phoenicians occupied and called “Canaan.”

Exodus 15:17

In the mountain of thine inheritance - See Exodus 15:13.