Exodus

¹ I'm singing my heart out to God—what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea.

² 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!

³ pure God, through and through.

⁴ he dumped in the sea, The elite of his officers he drowned in the Red Sea.

⁵ they sank like a rock in the deep blue sea.

⁶ your strong right hand shatters the enemy.

⁷ you smash your upstart enemies, You let loose your hot anger and burn them to a crisp.

⁸ the waters piled up; Tumbling streams dammed up, wild oceans curdled into a swamp.

⁹ "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."

¹⁰ and the sea covered them. They sank like a lead weight in the majestic waters.

¹¹ among gods, O God? Who compares with you in power, in holy majesty, In awesome praises, wonder-working God?

¹² and the Earth swallowed them up.

¹³ you led in merciful love; You guided them under your protection to your holy pasture.

¹⁴ Philistines writhed and trembled;

¹⁵ and the big bosses in Moab. Everybody in Canaan panicked and fell faint.

¹⁶ sent them reeling. Before your brandished right arm they were struck dumb like a stone,

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ 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.

²⁰ Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine, and all the women followed her with tambourines, dancing.

²¹ Sing to God— what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea!

²² Moses led Israel from the Red Sea on to the Wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days through the wilderness without finding any water.

²³ They got to Marah, but they couldn't drink the water at Marah; it was bitter. That's why they called the place Marah (Bitter).

²⁴ And the people complained to Moses, "So what are we supposed to drink?"

²⁵ So Moses cried out in prayer to God. God pointed him to a stick of wood. Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet.

²⁶ God said, "If you listen, listen obediently to how God tells you to live in his presence, obeying his commandments and keeping all his laws, then I won't strike you with all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians; I am God your healer."

²⁷ They came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They set up camp there by the water.