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Exodus 15:2

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Exodus 15:2

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The messianic-fulfillment reading connects the word for salvation in the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:2) with the name Jesus (Yehoshua/Yeshua), taking the recurrence of the salvation root across the Hebrew Bible as a sign that God intended salvation ultimately to be embodied in a person bearing that name. Advocates present this as a theologically significant pattern rather than incidental wordplay, in which the name of Jesus captures the essence of God's redemptive program from the earliest texts. They cite Matthew 1:21, where the naming of Jesus is tied to his saving his people, as evidence that the name-salvation link was understood as divinely intended.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading regards the appeal to Exodus 15:2 as etymological, noting that the Hebrew root y-sh-a (to save, deliver) is among the most common in the Hebrew Bible and functions as ordinary vocabulary for God's saving acts, especially military deliverance. The Song of the Sea, one of the oldest poems in the Hebrew Bible, uses the term as a common noun celebrating the victory at the sea, not as a proper name or a reference to a future person. On this view, treating every occurrence of the salvation root as a christological prediction confuses etymology with prophecy. It further observes that the cited fulfillment text, Acts 7:55-56, describes Stephen's vision of the exalted Jesus and makes no reference to Exodus 15:2.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Acts 7:55 Not cited by the New Testament

    Acts 7:55-56 neither quotes nor alludes to Exodus 15:2; the link is purely an etymological pun on 'salvation'/'Yeshua'.

  • 56 Not cited by the New Testament

    Acts 7:55-56 neither quotes nor alludes to Exodus 15:2; the link is purely an etymological pun on 'salvation'/'Yeshua'.