The Song of Moses
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Then Moses and the people of Israel f sang this song to the Lord, saying,
g "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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h The Lord is my strength and my i song,
and he has become j my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
k my father's God, and l I will exalt him.
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The Lord is m a man of war;
n the Lord is his name.
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o "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen p officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
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The q floods covered them;
they r went down into the depths like a stone.
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s Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, t shatters the enemy.
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In the u greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it v consumes them like stubble.
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At the w blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the x floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
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The enemy said, y 'I will pursue, I will overtake,
I z will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'
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You a blew with your wind; the b sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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c "Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in d glorious deeds, e doing wonders?
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You stretched out f your right hand;
the earth swallowed them.
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"You have g led in your steadfast love the people whom h you have redeemed;
you have i guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
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j The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
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Now are the chiefs of Edom k dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of l Moab;
m all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
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Terror and n dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still o as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom p you have purchased.
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You will bring them in and q plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
r the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
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s The Lord will reign forever and ever."
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For when t the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, u the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
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Then v Miriam w the prophetess, the x sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and y all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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And Miriam sang to them:
z "Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
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Cross References
Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
Judges 5:1
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:
2 Samuel 22:1
And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
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Exodus 15:21
And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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Psalms 18:1 - 2
I love you, O Lord, my strength.
Psalms 59:17
O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
Psalms 118:14
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Psalms 140:7
O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
Isaiah 12:2
"Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."
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Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
Psalms 109:1
Be not silent, O God of my praise!
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Psalms 18:46
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation -
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
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Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 3:15 - 16
God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
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2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exa...
Psalms 34:3
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt ...
Psalms 99:5
Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstoo...
Psalms 99:9
Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy...
Psalms 118:28
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; ...
Psalms 145:1
I will extol you, my God and King, and bless yo...
Isaiah 25:1
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I wil...
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Psalms 24:8
Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!
Revelation 19:11
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
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Exodus 3:15
God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
Psalms 83:18
That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord ; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
Malachi 3:6
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
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Exodus 14:28
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
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Exodus 14:7
And took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
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Exodus 15:10
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 14:28
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
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Nehemiah 9:11
And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.
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Exodus 15:12
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
Psalms 118:15 - 16
Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
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Psalms 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Revelation 2:27
And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
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Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
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Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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Exodus 14:21 - 22
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
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Psalms 78:13
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
Joshua 3:16
The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.
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Exodus 14:9
The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
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Genesis 49:27
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil."
Judges 5:30
'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Luke 11:22
But when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil.
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Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
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Exodus 15:5
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
Exodus 14:28
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
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Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your se...
1 Samuel 2:2
There is none holy like the Lord ; there is non...
2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there ...
1 Kings 8:23
And said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no G...
2 Chronicles 6:14
And said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no G...
Jeremiah 10:6
There is none like you, O Lord ; you are great,...
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Isaiah 6:3
And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
Revelation 4:8
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
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Psalms 77:14
You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.
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Exodus 15:6
Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
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Psalms 77:20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Psalms 77:15
You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
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Psalms 78:54
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
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Numbers 14:14
And they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Joshua 2:9 - 10
And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Joshua 9:24
They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you - so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.
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Deuteronomy 2:4
And command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.
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Numbers 22:3
And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.
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Joshua 2:9
And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Joshua 2:11
And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
Joshua 2:24
And they said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.
Joshua 5:1
As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Deuteronomy 11:25
No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
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1 Samuel 25:37
In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
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Psalms 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Psalms 44:2
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Jeremiah 32:41
I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
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Psalms 78:54
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
Psalms 132:13 - 14
For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
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Psalms 10:16
The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Psalms 29:10
The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
Psalms 45:6
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness.
Psalms 146:10
The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
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Exodus 14:23
The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
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Exodus 14:28 - 29
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
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Micah 6:4
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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Judges 4:4
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
2 Kings 22:14
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.
Nehemiah 6:14
Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
Luke 2:36
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin.
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Exodus 2:4
And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
Numbers 26:59
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.
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Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.
Psalms 68:25
The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:
Psalms 149:3
Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
Psalms 150:4
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
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Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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