Exodus 15:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power, Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.

King James Version
Thy right hand, O Lord , is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord , hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy.

New Century Version
Your right hand, Lord , is amazingly strong. Lord , your right hand broke the enemy to pieces.

New English Translation
Your right hand, O Lord , was majestic in power, your right hand, O Lord , shattered the enemy.

Amplified Bible
"Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

New American Standard Bible
"Your right hand, LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, LORD, destroys the enemy.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy right hande, O Lorde, is glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lorde, hath brused the enemie.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your right hand, O Yahweh, is majestic in power,Your right hand, O Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

Contemporary English Version
With the tremendous force of your right arm, our Lord , you crushed your enemies.

Complete Jewish Bible
Your right hand, Adonai , is sublimely powerful; your right hand, Adonai , shatters the foe.

Darby Translation
Thy right hand, Jehovah, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, Jehovah, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Easy-to-Read Version
" Lord , your right hand is amazingly strong. With your right hand, Lord , you broke the enemy to pieces.

English Standard Version
Your right hand, O Lord , glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord , shatters the enemy.

George Lamsa Translation
Thy right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; thy right hand, O LORD, has defeated thy enemies.

Good News Translation
"Your right hand, Lord , is awesome in power; it breaks the enemy in pieces.

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, your right hand is glorious in power.Lord, your right hand shattered the enemy.

Literal Translation
Your right hand , O Jehovah, is glorious in power; O Jehovah, Your right hand dashes the enemy to pieces.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy right hande (O LORDE) is glorious in power: thy right hade (O LORDE) hath smytten the enemies.

American Standard Version
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

Bible in Basic English
Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy ryght hande Lorde is become glorious in power, thy ryght hande Lorde hath all to dasshed the enemie.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

King James Version (1611)
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power, thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy right hand, O God, has been glorified in strength; thy right hand, O God, has broken the enemies.

English Revised Version
Thy right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

Berean Standard Bible
Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, thi riythond is magnyfied in strengthe; Lord, thi riythond smoot the enemye.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Is become honourable in power; Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Doth crush an enemy.

Update Bible Version
Your right hand, O Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, O Yahweh, dashes in pieces the enemy.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

World English Bible
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

New King James Version
"Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

New Living Translation
"Your right hand, O Lord , is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord , smashes the enemy.

New Life Bible
O Lord, Your right hand is great in power. O Lord, Your right hand destroys those who hate You.

New Revised Standard
Your right hand, O Lord , glorious in power— your right hand, O Lord , shattered the enemy.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy right hand, O Yahweh is splendid in power, - Thy right hand, O Yahweh dasheth in pieces a foe;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.

Revised Standard Version
Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

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

right hand: Exodus 15:11, 1 Chronicles 29:11, 1 Chronicles 29:12, Psalms 17:7, Psalms 44:3, Psalms 60:5, Psalms 74:11, Psalms 77:10, Psalms 89:8-13, Psalms 98:1, Psalms 118:15, Psalms 118:16, Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 52:10, Matthew 6:13

dashed: Psalms 2:9, Isaiah 30:14, Jeremiah 13:14, Revelation 2:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:14 - his right hand Exodus 15:12 - stretchedst 1 Samuel 2:10 - adversaries Nehemiah 9:5 - thy glorious Job 40:9 - Hast Job 40:11 - behold Psalms 59:16 - But Psalms 77:14 - thou hast Psalms 106:8 - that he Psalms 108:6 - save Psalms 111:3 - honourable Psalms 136:12 - General Song of Solomon 5:14 - hands Isaiah 10:24 - after the manner Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Isaiah 63:12 - with Luke 1:51 - showed Colossians 1:11 - his

Cross-References

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

Hebrews 11:8
By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power,.... In bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and in the destruction of Pharaoh and the Egyptians; and so the right hand of Christ, expressive of his power, he has in and of himself, and is the same with his Father's, and is mighty, yea, almighty, is become glorious, famous, and illustrious, in the redemption and salvation of his people, by bearing their sins, and working out a righteousness for them; and in the destruction of their enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death, as is more fully expressed in the next clause:

thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy; in a literal sense, Pharaoh and his host, the avowed enemies of Israel; and, in a spiritual sense, those before named, together with all the antichristian party, those enemies of Christ, and his people, whom he wilt break to shivers as a potter's vessel, Revelation 2:27.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 15:6. Thy right hand — Thy omnipotence, manifested in a most extraordinary way.