Exodus 15:10

Translations

Modern

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Traditional

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Literal

You blew with Your breath; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in mighty waters.

Latin

Flavit spiritus tuus, et operuit eos mare: submersi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis vehementibus.

Original

Hebrew

English

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Notes

Exodus 15:9–10

Compared to the Creator’s plans, all the plans of even the most powerful humans are nothing (see Psalm 2:2–5). They are like dust that can be blown away with one puff of his breath (see Isaiah 40:15–17).

Exodus 15:6–12

The song speaks to the Lord in a personal way. It calls him You. This makes a strong contrast between the Lord and them, the enemies (15:7). The enemies had their own plans and desires, but their plans failed (15:9,10).

Exodus 15:1–18

Scholars believe this song of rescue to be one of the oldest preserved examples of the Hebrew language, attesting to its importance in Israel’s thought and faith. It is divided into three stanzas:

The first stanza celebrates the Lord's rescue of Moses and his people (using many first-person pronouns, 15:1–5).
The second stanza celebrates the great difference between the Lord and the Egyptians (verses 6–12).
The third stanza considers what these events would mean for the future (verses 13–18).

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Moses Pharaoh Music in Ancient Israel The Cross and Passover The Exodus as History

Events

Wilderness Wanderings

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Matthew 8:27
The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”
Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
Exodus 14:27–28
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Isaiah 11:15
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
Deuteronomy 11:4
…what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
Psalm 74:13–14
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
Psalm 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Psalm 147:18
He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

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