1Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD:
2The LORD is my strength and my song,
3The LORD is a warrior,
4Pharaoh’s chariots and army
5The depths have covered them;
6Your right hand, O LORD,
7You overthrew Your adversaries
8At the blast of Your nostrils
9The enemy declared,
10But You blew with Your breath,
11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD?
12You stretched out Your right hand,
13With loving devotion 15:13 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant. You will lead
14The nations will hear and tremble;
15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed;
16and terror and dread will fall on them.
17You will bring them in and plant them
18The LORD will reign forever and ever!”
19For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
21And Miriam sang back to them:
22Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
23And when they came to Marah,15:23 Marah means bitter. they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
25And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened.
26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.