VERSES OF SONG
The Song at the Sea Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the Almighty: I will sing to the Almighty who has risen in triumph, horse and rider God hurled into the sea. The Almighty is my strength and song and has become my salvation. This is my God, whom I will praise, my father’s God, whom I will exalt. The Almighty is a warrior, so is the Almighty known. Pharaoh’s chariots and army God cast into the sea, the pick of his officers are sunk in the sea of reeds. The depths cover them, they went down to the bottom like a stone. Your right hand, Almighty, is majestic in power, Your right hand, Almighty, shatters the enemy. In the fullness of Your triumph You throw down Your foes. You unleashed Your anger, it consumed them like chaff. A blast of Your nostrils and the waters piled high, the waves stood up like a wall, in the heart of the sea the deeps congealed. The enemy said ‘I will chase – overtake! Divide the spoil! Devour my fill! Draw my sword! My hand destroy them!’ One puff of Your breath and the waters covered them, they sank like lead in the terrible waters. Who is like You, Almighty, among the gods men worship? Who, like You, is majestic in holiness, awesome in praise, working wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them. You led with constant love Your ransomed people. You guided them with Your strength to Your holy place of rest. Peoples hear and tremble! Tremors grip the dwellers in Philistia. Edom’s chieftains are now dismayed. Shuddering grips Moab’s leaders. All dwellers in Canaan are in turmoil. Dread and terror fall upon them. Through the power of Your arm they are still as stone, until Your people pass over, Almighty God, till the people You have gained pass over. You will bring them and plant them on the mountain that is Your own,
the place You have made Your dwelling, God, the sanctuary, God, prepared by Your own hands. God alone shall rule forever and ever. 1
1 Ex 15:1–18.
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