Dual Panel1Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I shall sing to the LORD, for he has risen up in triumph; horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.
2The LORD is my refuge and my defence; he has shown himself my deliverer. He is my God, and I shall glorify him; my father's God, and I shall exalt him.
3The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
4Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has cast into the sea; the flower of his officers are engulfed in the Red Sea.
5The watery abyss has covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.
6Your right hand, LORD, is majestic in strength; your right hand, LORD, shattered the enemy.
7In the fullness of your triumph you overthrew those who opposed you: you let loose your fury; it consumed them like stubble.
8At the blast of your anger the sea piled up; the water stood up like a bank; out at sea the great deep congealed.
9“The enemy boasted, ‘I shall pursue, I shall overtake; I shall divide the spoil, I shall glut my appetite on them; I shall draw my sword, I shall rid myself of them.’
10You blew with your blast; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the swelling waves.
11“LORD, who is like you among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, worthy of awe and praise, worker of wonders?
12You stretched out your right hand; the earth engulfed them.
13“In your constant love you led the people whom you had redeemed: you guided them by your strength to your holy dwelling-place.
14Nations heard and trembled; anguish seized the dwellers in Philistia.
15The chieftains of Edom were then dismayed, trembling seized the leaders of Moab, the inhabitants of Canaan were all panic-stricken;
16terror and dread fell upon them: through the might of your arm they stayed stone-still while your people passed, LORD, while the people whom you made your own passed by.
17You will bring them in and plant them in the mount that is your possession, the dwelling-place, LORD, of your own making, the sanctuary, LORD, which your own hands established.
18The LORD will reign for ever and for ever.”
19When Pharaoh's horse, both chariots and cavalry, went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters over them; but Israel had passed through the sea on dry ground.
20The prophetess Miriam, Aaron's sister, took up her tambourine, and all the women followed her, dancing to the sound of tambourines;
21and Miriam sang them this refrain: “Sing to the LORD, for he has risen up in triumph: horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.”
In the wilderness
22MOSES led Israel from the Red Sea out into the wilderness of Shur, where for three days they travelled through the wilderness without finding water.
23When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter; that is why the place was called Marah.
24The people complained to Moses, asking, “What are we to drink?”
25Moses cried to the LORD, who showed him a log which, when thrown into the water, made the water sweet. It was there that the LORD laid down a statute and rule of life; there he put the people to the test.
26He said, “If only you will obey the LORD your God, if you will do what is right in his eyes, if you will listen to his commands and keep all his statutes, then I shall never bring on you any of the sufferings which I brought on the Egyptians; for I the LORD am your healer.”
27They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and there they encamped beside the water.