6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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6 Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
7 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.
8 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.
Psalms 118:15-16(v6)The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. The right hand of Yahweh…
Isaiah 51:9(v6)Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in…
1 Chronicles 29:11-12(v6)Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is…
Job 4:9(v8)By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
Psalms 2:9(v6)You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
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Psalms 60:5(v6)So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
Revelation 2:27(v6)He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
Psalms 78:13(v8)He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
Isaiah 52:10(v6)Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Matthew 6:13(v6)Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
Exodus 14:21-22(v8)Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land,…
Exodus 15:11(v6)Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Psalms 17:7(v6)Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
Psalms 44:3(v6)For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the…
Psalms 74:11(v6)Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
Psalms 77:10(v6)Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalms 89:8-13(v6)Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you. You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves…
Psalms 98:1(v6)Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Isaiah 5:24(v7)Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness,…
Jeremiah 13:14(v6)I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion,…
Malachi 4:1(v7)“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes…
2 Samuel 22:16(v8)Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his…
Isaiah 11:4(v8)but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of…
Isaiah 30:14(v6)He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken…
Isaiah 37:7(v8)Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own…
Isaiah 47:14(v7)Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to…
Habakkuk 3:10(v8)The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
2 Thessalonians 2:8(v8)Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
Deuteronomy 33:26(v7)“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
Psalms 83:13(v7)My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
Psalms 148:13(v7)let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Isaiah 5:16(v7)but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 37:29(v7)Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my…
Exodus 9:16(v7)but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
Psalms 59:13(v7)Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.
Psalms 68:33(v7)To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Psalms 78:49-50(v7)He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. He made a path for his anger.…
Isaiah 37:17(v7)Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living…
Isaiah 37:23(v7)Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of…
Isaiah 37:36(v7)Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the…
Isaiah 37:38(v7)As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into…
Jeremiah 10:6(v7)There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.
Micah 4:11(v7)Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
Nahum 1:9-12(v7)What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. For entangled like thorns, and drunken…
Zechariah 2:8(v7)For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his…
Zechariah 14:3(v7)Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:8(v7)It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the…
Matthew 3:12(v7)His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the…
Acts 9:4(v7)He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Or, power.
Or, power.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Exo 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become…
Exo 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Ver. 6. Hath dashed in pieces.] "It is a fearful thing to fall into the" punishing "hands of the living God." {Heb 10:31} For "who knoweth the power of his anger?" {Psa 90:11}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv7–8In the greatness of thine excellency; by thy great…
In the greatness of thine excellency; by thy great and glorious power.
As stubble; as easily, and as speedily, and as irrecoverably.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in…
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power,.... In bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and in the destruction of Pharaoh and the Egyptians; and so the right hand of Christ, expressive of his power, he has in and of himself, and is the same with his Father's, and is mighty, yea, almighty, is become glorious, famous, and illustrious, in the redemption and salvation of his people, by bearing their sins, and working out a righteousness for them; and in the destruction of their enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death, as is more fully expressed in the next clause:
thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy; in a literal sense, Pharaoh and his host, the avowed enemies of Israel; and, in a spiritual sense, those before named, together with all the antichristian party, those enemies of Christ, and his people, whom he wilt break to shivers as a potter's vessel, Rev 2:27.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv7–8In the greatness of thine excellency - By thy…
In the greatness of thine excellency - By thy great and excellent power.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Verse 6. Thy right hand] Thy omnipotence, manifested in…
Verse 6. Thy right hand] Thy omnipotence, manifested in a most extraordinary way.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn vv7–8Exo 15:7. In the greatness of thine excellency —…
Exo 15:7. In the greatness of thine excellency — Thy great and excellent power. Excellency, or highness, (as the word גאון, here used, properly means,) belongs in the most eminent and unqualified sense to Jehovah, who is superlatively high and excellent in all his attributes.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv7–8Wrath. A tempest of lightning. See Isaias lxiii. 11;…
Wrath. A tempest of lightning. See Isaias lxiii. 11; Habacuc iii. 15.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn v66-8. Second strain. Now the poet breaks out into…
6-8. Second strain. Now the poet breaks out into a bold apostrophe to Jehovah. Here are seven lines in two couplets and one triplet, rising in climax from a declaration of his power to a description of its manifestation at the Red Sea, first in plain language, and then in tropes which steadily rise in fervour and boldness.
Blast of thy nostrils — Sublime imagery for the “strong east wind” which God made to blow “all that night.”
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Rise like a heap… stiffen — The waters are poetically painted as solid masses, heaped up like walls. Habakkuk sang in a yet bolder strain: The deep lifted up his voice, (and) raised his hands on high. Hab_3:10.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv6–86.Thy right hand, O Yahweh glorious in power,
6.Thy right hand, O Yahweh glorious in power,
Thy right hand, O Yahweh, did dash in pieces the enemy.
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The text can only be so rendered, ‘glorious’ (which is masc.) agreeing with ‘Yahweh’ (cf. v. 11), and the subject, ‘Thy right hand,’ being repeated for emphasis in v. 6b before the predicate (just as in Psa_92:9; Psa_93:3; Psa_94:3). If we desire to render as in RV., we must read נאדרה for נאדרי. The figure of the ‘right hand,’ as Isa_51:9, Psa_118:15-16 al.
glorious] Cf. v. 11; and the cognate adj. אדיר, of Jehovah, Isa_10:34 (EVV. a mighty one), Isa_33:21 (RV. in majesty), Psa_76:4 (render, ‘Illumined [but read probably Terrible, as vv. 7, 12] art thou and glorious’), Psa_93:4 (EVV. mighty); cf. Psa_8:1; Psa_8:9 (render, ‘How glorious is thy name in all the earth!’). The idea of the word is noble, grand, magnificent.
did dash in pieces] only besides Jdg_10:8 (EVV. weakly vexed: render, ‘brake and crushed’); cf. the same word in Jdg_9:53 Targ.
6–10. How Jehovah, by His power, had annihilated the foe: elated with the hope of plunder, and confident of victory, they pursued Israel into the path cut through the sea; He but blew with His wind, and the waters closed upon them.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn v6(6) Thy right hand.—Here is a second anthropomorphism, following…
(6) Thy right hand.—Here is a second anthropomorphism, following naturally on the first, and occuring in the later Scriptures frequently, though now used for the first time.
Hath dashed in pieces.—Rather, dashes in pieces. The verb is in the future, but is a future of continuance.
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Thou hast overthrown . . . —Heb., thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee; thou sendest forth thy wrath: it consumeth them like stubble.
The blast of thy nostrils.—The “east wind” of Exo_14:21. (Comp. Psa_18:15.) As a physical effect, the gathering together of the waters, is ascribed to the “blast,” we must understand a physical cause. Otherwise, God’s wrath might be meant, as in Job_4:9.
The floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed.—The literalism which, taking its stand on these phrases, maintains that the water “gave up its nature (Kalisch) indicates an inability to distinguish poetry from prose, and fact from imagery. As well might it be held that the east wind was actually the breath of God’s nostrils. (See the Note on Exo_14:22.)
(6-10) The second stanza, or strophe, expands the subject-matter of the first. It begins, like the first, with some general expressions, setting forth the glory and power of Jehovah (Exo_15:6-7), as shown in the recent catastrophe. From this it proceeds to the catastrophe itself, which it describes in considerable detail, noting (1) the sudden rise of the wind (Exo_15:8); (2) the gathering together of the waters into separate masses (ibid.); (3) the boastful and vindictive temper of the Egyptians (ibid.); (4) the rise of a second wind (Exo_15:9); (5) the consequent return of the waters; and (6) the submerging of the host by them. The second stanza is considerably longer than the first, consisting of twelve, whereas the first consists of only seven, lines.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Vers. 6-18. Between verses 5 and 6, Miriam"s chorus…
Vers. 6-18. Between verses 5 and 6, Miriam"s chorus was probably interposed "Sing ye unto the Lord," etc. Then began the second strophe or stanza of the ode. It is, in the main, expansive and exegetical of the preceding stanza, going into greater detail, and drawing a contrast between the antecedent pride and arrogance of the Egyptians and their subsequent miserable fall.
Thy right hand, O Lord. Another anthropomorphism, here used for the first time. Compare ver. 12; Deu_33:2; and the Psalms, passim. Is become glorious Or "is glorious. Kalisch rightly regards verses 6 and 7 as containing "a general description of God"s omnipotence and justice," and notes that the poet only returns to the subject of the Egyptians in verse 8. So also Knobel. Hath dashed in pieces. Rather, "Will dash in pieces," or "dashes in pieces a general statement.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power
Moses speaks of God as if God had hands. The right hand refers to God's power or the things God does powerfully. AT: "Yahweh, your power is glorious" or "Yahweh, what you do is glorious in power" (See: Metonymy)
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your right hand, Yahweh, has shattered the enemy
Moses speaks of God as if God had hands. The right hand refers to God's power. AT: "Yahweh, your power has shattered the enemy" or "Yahweh, by your power you have shattered the enemy" (See: Metonymy)
has shattered the enemy
Moses speaks of the enemy as if it were fragile and could be shattered like glass or pottery. AT: "has completely destroyed the enemy" (See: Metaphor)
those who rose up against you
Rebelling against God is spoken of as rising up against him. AT: "those who rebelled against you" or "your enemies" (See: Metaphor)
You sent out your wrath
Moses speaks of God's wrath as if it were a servant that God sent out to do something. AT: "You showed your wrath" or "You acted according to your wrath" (See: Personification)
it consumed them like stubble
Moses speaks of God's wrath as if it were fire that could completely burn up things. His enemies were completely destroyed like stubble in a fire. AT: "it completely destroyed your enemies like a fire that burns up straw" (See: Metaphor and Simile)
By the blast of your nostrils
Moses speaks of God as if God had a nose, and he speaks of the wind as if God blew the wind from his nose. AT: "You blew on the sea and" (See: Personification)
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv6, 815:6-12 The personal tone continues as the Lord is…
15:6-12 The personal tone continues as the Lord is referred to as you and is contrasted dramatically with them (15:7). All that the enemy intended (15:9) was brought to nothing (15:10) before the mighty power of God.
15:6 Your right hand: This was typically a warrior’s sword arm.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Or, power.
Or, power.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Exo 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become…
Exo 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Ver. 6. Hath dashed in pieces.] "It is a fearful thing to fall into the" punishing "hands of the living God." {Heb 10:31} For "who knoweth the power of his anger?" {Psa 90:11}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv7–8 In the greatness of thine excellency; by thy great…
In the greatness of thine excellency; by thy great and glorious power.
As stubble; as easily, and as speedily, and as irrecoverably.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in…
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power,.... In bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and in the destruction of Pharaoh and the Egyptians; and so the right hand of Christ, expressive of his power, he has in and of himself, and is the same with his Father's, and is mighty, yea, almighty, is become glorious, famous, and illustrious, in the redemption and salvation of his people, by bearing their sins, and working out a righteousness for them; and in the destruction of their enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death, as is more fully expressed in the next clause:
thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy; in a literal sense, Pharaoh and his host, the avowed enemies of Israel; and, in a spiritual sense, those before named, together with all the antichristian party, those enemies of Christ, and his people, whom he wilt break to shivers as a potter's vessel, Rev 2:27.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv7–8 In the greatness of thine excellency - By thy…
In the greatness of thine excellency - By thy great and excellent power.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Verse 6. Thy right hand] Thy omnipotence, manifested in…
Verse 6. Thy right hand] Thy omnipotence, manifested in a most extraordinary way.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv7–8 Exo 15:7. In the greatness of thine excellency —…
Exo 15:7. In the greatness of thine excellency — Thy great and excellent power. Excellency, or highness, (as the word גאון, here used, properly means,) belongs in the most eminent and unqualified sense to Jehovah, who is superlatively high and excellent in all his attributes.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv7–8 Wrath. A tempest of lightning. See Isaias lxiii. 11;…
Wrath. A tempest of lightning. See Isaias lxiii. 11; Habacuc iii. 15.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v6 6-8. Second strain. Now the poet breaks out into…
6-8. Second strain. Now the poet breaks out into a bold apostrophe to Jehovah. Here are seven lines in two couplets and one triplet, rising in climax from a declaration of his power to a description of its manifestation at the Red Sea, first in plain language, and then in tropes which steadily rise in fervour and boldness.
Blast of thy nostrils — Sublime imagery for the “strong east wind” which God made to blow “all that night.”
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Rise like a heap… stiffen — The waters are poetically painted as solid masses, heaped up like walls. Habakkuk sang in a yet bolder strain: The deep lifted up his voice, (and) raised his hands on high. Hab_3:10.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–8 6.Thy right hand, O Yahweh glorious in power,
6.Thy right hand, O Yahweh glorious in power,
Thy right hand, O Yahweh, did dash in pieces the enemy.
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The text can only be so rendered, ‘glorious’ (which is masc.) agreeing with ‘Yahweh’ (cf. v. 11), and the subject, ‘Thy right hand,’ being repeated for emphasis in v. 6b before the predicate (just as in Psa_92:9; Psa_93:3; Psa_94:3). If we desire to render as in RV., we must read נאדרה for נאדרי. The figure of the ‘right hand,’ as Isa_51:9, Psa_118:15-16 al.
glorious] Cf. v. 11; and the cognate adj. אדיר, of Jehovah, Isa_10:34 (EVV. a mighty one), Isa_33:21 (RV. in majesty), Psa_76:4 (render, ‘Illumined [but read probably Terrible, as vv. 7, 12] art thou and glorious’), Psa_93:4 (EVV. mighty); cf. Psa_8:1; Psa_8:9 (render, ‘How glorious is thy name in all the earth!’). The idea of the word is noble, grand, magnificent.
did dash in pieces] only besides Jdg_10:8 (EVV. weakly vexed: render, ‘brake and crushed’); cf. the same word in Jdg_9:53 Targ.
6–10. How Jehovah, by His power, had annihilated the foe: elated with the hope of plunder, and confident of victory, they pursued Israel into the path cut through the sea; He but blew with His wind, and the waters closed upon them.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v6 (6) Thy right hand.—Here is a second anthropomorphism, following…
(6) Thy right hand.—Here is a second anthropomorphism, following naturally on the first, and occuring in the later Scriptures frequently, though now used for the first time.
Hath dashed in pieces.—Rather, dashes in pieces. The verb is in the future, but is a future of continuance.
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Thou hast overthrown . . . —Heb., thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee; thou sendest forth thy wrath: it consumeth them like stubble.
The blast of thy nostrils.—The “east wind” of Exo_14:21. (Comp. Psa_18:15.) As a physical effect, the gathering together of the waters, is ascribed to the “blast,” we must understand a physical cause. Otherwise, God’s wrath might be meant, as in Job_4:9.
The floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed.—The literalism which, taking its stand on these phrases, maintains that the water “gave up its nature (Kalisch) indicates an inability to distinguish poetry from prose, and fact from imagery. As well might it be held that the east wind was actually the breath of God’s nostrils. (See the Note on Exo_14:22.)
(6-10) The second stanza, or strophe, expands the subject-matter of the first. It begins, like the first, with some general expressions, setting forth the glory and power of Jehovah (Exo_15:6-7), as shown in the recent catastrophe. From this it proceeds to the catastrophe itself, which it describes in considerable detail, noting (1) the sudden rise of the wind (Exo_15:8); (2) the gathering together of the waters into separate masses (ibid.); (3) the boastful and vindictive temper of the Egyptians (ibid.); (4) the rise of a second wind (Exo_15:9); (5) the consequent return of the waters; and (6) the submerging of the host by them. The second stanza is considerably longer than the first, consisting of twelve, whereas the first consists of only seven, lines.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Vers. 6-18. Between verses 5 and 6, Miriam"s chorus…
Vers. 6-18. Between verses 5 and 6, Miriam"s chorus was probably interposed "Sing ye unto the Lord," etc. Then began the second strophe or stanza of the ode. It is, in the main, expansive and exegetical of the preceding stanza, going into greater detail, and drawing a contrast between the antecedent pride and arrogance of the Egyptians and their subsequent miserable fall.
Thy right hand, O Lord. Another anthropomorphism, here used for the first time. Compare ver. 12; Deu_33:2; and the Psalms, passim. Is become glorious Or "is glorious. Kalisch rightly regards verses 6 and 7 as containing "a general description of God"s omnipotence and justice," and notes that the poet only returns to the subject of the Egyptians in verse 8. So also Knobel. Hath dashed in pieces. Rather, "Will dash in pieces," or "dashes in pieces a general statement.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power
Moses speaks of God as if God had hands. The right hand refers to God's power or the things God does powerfully. AT: "Yahweh, your power is glorious" or "Yahweh, what you do is glorious in power" (See: Metonymy)
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your right hand, Yahweh, has shattered the enemy
Moses speaks of God as if God had hands. The right hand refers to God's power. AT: "Yahweh, your power has shattered the enemy" or "Yahweh, by your power you have shattered the enemy" (See: Metonymy)
has shattered the enemy
Moses speaks of the enemy as if it were fragile and could be shattered like glass or pottery. AT: "has completely destroyed the enemy" (See: Metaphor)
those who rose up against you
Rebelling against God is spoken of as rising up against him. AT: "those who rebelled against you" or "your enemies" (See: Metaphor)
You sent out your wrath
Moses speaks of God's wrath as if it were a servant that God sent out to do something. AT: "You showed your wrath" or "You acted according to your wrath" (See: Personification)
it consumed them like stubble
Moses speaks of God's wrath as if it were fire that could completely burn up things. His enemies were completely destroyed like stubble in a fire. AT: "it completely destroyed your enemies like a fire that burns up straw" (See: Metaphor and Simile)
By the blast of your nostrils
Moses speaks of God as if God had a nose, and he speaks of the wind as if God blew the wind from his nose. AT: "You blew on the sea and" (See: Personification)
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right hand
glory
power
majesty
send
wrath
consume
water
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv6, 8 15:6-12 The personal tone continues as the Lord is…
15:6-12 The personal tone continues as the Lord is referred to as you and is contrasted dramatically with them (15:7). All that the enemy intended (15:9) was brought to nothing (15:10) before the mighty power of God.
15:6 Your right hand: This was typically a warrior’s sword arm.
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