Chapter
15
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for she has triumphed gloriously. The horse and her rider she has thrown into the sea.
Yah is my strength and song. She has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise her; my mother's God, and I will exalt her.
Yahweh is a woman of war. Yahweh is her name.
She has cast Pharaoh's chariots and her army into the sea. Her chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
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.
The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty women of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
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 pass over who you have purchased.
You shall 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, Domina, which your hands have established.
Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
For the horses of Pharaoh went in with her chariots and with her 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 midst of the sea.
Miriam the prophet, the brother of Aaron, took a tambourine in his hand; and all the men went out after his with tambourines and with dances.
Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for she has triumphed gloriously. The horse and her rider she has thrown into the sea."
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.
When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
Then she cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed her a tree, and she threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There she made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there she tested them;
and she said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in her eyes, and will pay attention to her commandments, and keep all her statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.