Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake, saying,
I will sing unto Jehovah, for he {Or, is highly exalted}hath triumphed gloriously:
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
{Hebrew: Jah.}Jehovah is my strength and song,
And he is become my salvation:
This is my God, and I will praise him;
My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Jehovah is a man of war:
Jehovah is his name.
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea;
And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
The deeps cover them:
They went down into the depths like a stone.
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power,
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee:
Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
And with the blast of thy 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 upon them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods?
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed:
Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.
The peoples have heard, they tremble:
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
The {Hebrew: rams.}mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them:
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
Terror and dread falleth upon them;
By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone;
Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah,
Till the people pass over that thou hast {Hebrew: gotten.}purchased.
Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,
The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever.
For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
And Miriam answered them,
Sing ye to Jehovah, for he {Or, is highly exalted}hath triumphed gloriously;
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
And 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.
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called {That is, Bitterness.}Marah.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
An he cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them;
and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
Querverweise zu 2. Mose 15,1 2Mo 15,1
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
For that the leaders took the lead in Israel,For that the people offered themselves willingly,Bless ye Jehovah.
Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes;I, even I, will sing unto Jehovah;I will sing praise to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir,When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom,The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped,Yea, the clouds dropped water.
The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah,Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,In the days of Jael, {Or, the caravans ceased}the highways were unoccupied,And the travellers walked through {Hebrew: crooked ways.}byways.
{Or, The villages were unoccupied}The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased,Until that I Deborah arose,That I arose a mother in Israel.
They chose new gods;Then was war in the gates:Was there a shield or spear seenAmong forty thousand in Israel?
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, {Or, Ye that offered yourselves willingly among the people, bless &c.}That offered themselves willingly among the people:Bless ye Jehovah.
Tell of it, ye that ride on white asses,Ye that sit on rich carpets,And ye that walk by the way.
{Or, Because of the voice of the archers…there let them rehearse}Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah,Even the righteous acts {Or, toward his villages}of his rule in Israel.Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.
Awake, awake, Deborah;Awake, awake, utter a song:Arise, Barak, and lead away thy captives, thou son of Abinoam.
{Or, Then go down, O remnant, for the nobles…O Jehovah, go down for me against the mighty Or, Then made he a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people; Jehovah made me have dominion over the mighty}Then came down a remnant of the nobles {Or, as otherwise read. The people of Jehovah came down for me against (or, among) the mighty}and the people;Jehovah came down for me {Or, among}against the mighty.
Out of Ephraim came down they whose root is in Amalek;After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples;Out of Machir came down {Or, lawgivers}governors,And out of Zebulun they that handle {Or, the staff of the scribe}the marshal's staff.
And {Or, my princes in Issachar}the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;As was Issachar, so was Barak;Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.By the watercourses of ReubenThere were great resolves of heart.
Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds,To hear the pipings for the flocks?At the watercourses of ReubenThere were great searchings of heart.
Gilead abode beyond the Jordan:And Dan, why did he remain in ships?Asher sat still at the {Or, shore}haven of the sea,And abode by his creeks.
Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death,And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
The kings came and fought;Then fought the kings of Canaan.In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo:They took no gain of money.
From heaven fought the stars,From their courses they fought against Sisera.
The river Kishon swept them away,That ancient river, the river Kishon.O my soul, {Or, thou hast trodden down strength}march on with strength.
Then did the horsehoofs stampBy reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah.Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,Because they came not to the help of Jehovah,To the help of Jehovah {Or, among}against the mighty.
Blessed {Or, of}above women shall Jael be,The wife of Heber the Kenite;Blessed shall she be {Or, of}above women in the tent.
He asked water, and she gave him milk;She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the tent-pin,And her right hand to the workmen's hammer;And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head;Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;At her feet he bowed, he fell;Where he bowed, there he fell down {Or, overpowered}dead.
Through the window she looked forth, and cried,The mother of Sisera cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming?Why tarry the {Hebrew: steps.}wheels of his chariots?
Her wise ladies answered her, {Or, (Yet she repeateth her words unto herself)}Yea, she returned answer to herself,
Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil?A damsel, two damsels to every man;To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah:But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.And the land had rest forty years.
And Miriam answered them,Sing ye to Jehovah, for he {Or, is highly exalted}hath triumphed gloriously;The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
And David spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
and he said,Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
God, my rock, in him will I take refuge;My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge;My saviour, thou savest me from violence.
I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
For the waves of death compassed me;The floods of {Hebrew: Belial.}ungodliness made me afraid:
The cords of Sheol were round about me;The snares of death came upon me.
In my distress I called upon Jehovah;Yea, I called unto my God:And he heard my voice out of his temple,And my cry came into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled,The foundations of heaven quakedAnd were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke {Or, in his wrath}out of his nostrils,And fire out of his mouth devoured:Coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down;And thick darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;Yea, he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him,Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness before himCoals of fire were kindled.
Jehovah thundered from heaven,And the Most High uttered his voice.
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;Lightning, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of the sea appeared,The foundations of the world were laid bare,By the rebuke of Jehovah,At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
He sent from on high, he took me;He drew me out of {Or, great}many waters;
He delivered me from my strong enemy,From them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
They came upon me in the day of my calamity;But Jehovah was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place;He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness;According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were before me;And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
I was also perfect toward him;And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness,According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself {So Psalm 18:26. The Text has, unsavory.}froward.
And the afflicted people thou wilt save;But thine eyes are upon the haughty, {Or, whom thou wilt bring down}that thou mayest bring them down.
For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah;And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.
For by thee I run {Or, through}upon a troop;By my God do I leap over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect:The word of Jehovah is tried;He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
For who is God, save Jehovah?And who is a rock, save our God?
God is my strong fortress;And he {Or, setteth free According to another reading, guideth my way in perfectness.}guideth the perfect in his way.
He maketh {Another reading is, my.}his feet like hinds' feet,And setteth me upon my high places.
He teacheth my hands to war,So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;And thy {Or, condescension}gentleness hath made me great.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me;And my {Hebrew: ankles.}feet have not slipped.
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise:Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle;Thou hast {Hebrew: caused to bow.}subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,That I might cut off them that hate me.
They looked, but there was none to save;Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth,I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people;Thou {Or, wilt keep}hast kept me to be the head of the nations:A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
The foreigners shall {Or, yield feigned obedience Hebrew: lie.}submit themselves unto me:As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.
The foreigners shall fade away,And shall {So Psalm 18:45. The Text has, gird themselves.}come trembling out of their close places.
Jehovah liveth; And blessed be my rock;And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,And that bringeth down peoples under me,
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations,And will sing praises unto thy name.
{Another reading is, He is a tower of deliverance.}Great {Hebrew: salvations.}deliverance giveth he to his king,And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed,To David and to his seed, for evermore.
And I, behold, I will {Hebrew: make strong.}harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Then believed they his words;They sang his praise.
And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its {Or, wonted flow}strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah {Hebrew: shook off.}overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.
Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
{Or, having put off from himself the principalities &c.}having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,And declare his works with singing.
And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, {Or, let thine anger turn away, and comfort thou me}thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, {Or, proclaim his name}call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.
Sing unto Jehovah; for he hath done {Or, gloriously}excellent things: {Or, this is made known}let this be known in all the earth.
Cry aloud and shout, thou {Hebrew: inhabitress.}inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
And they sing the song of Moses the {Greek: bondservant.}servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the {Many ancient authorities read nations. Jeremiah 10:7.}ages.