Exodus 15

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD:
“I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a warrior;
the LORD is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he cast into the sea;
his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea. The deep waters covered them;
they sank into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power;
your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow those who rise against you;
you send out your burning anger, and it consumes them like stubble. At the breath of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the flowing waters stood like a heap;
the depths congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
my desire will have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.’ You blew with your wind;
the sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters. Who is like you among the gods, O LORD?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy deeds, working wonders? You stretched out your right hand;
the earth swallowed them. In your steadfast love you have led the people you redeemed;
in your strength you have guided them to your holy dwelling. The peoples have heard;
they tremble.
Pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
trembling seized the mighty men of Moab;
all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. Terror and dread will fall upon them;
by the greatness of your arm they will be still as a stone, until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you acquired pass by. You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place, O LORD, that you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. The LORD will reign forever and ever.” For Pharaoh’s horses went into the sea with his chariots and his horsemen, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea back upon them. But the Israelites had walked on dry ground through the midst of the sea. Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. Miriam answered them,
“Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.” Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days in the wilderness and found no water. They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter. That is why it was named Marah. The people grumbled against Moses and said, “What shall we drink?” Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. Moses threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD established a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them. He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, do what is right in his eyes, give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put on you none of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD who heals you.” They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

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