The Song of Moses

15 Then Moses and the people of Israel (A)sang this song to the Lord, saying,

(B)“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
    the horse and his rider[a] he has thrown into the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 15:1 Or its chariot; also verse 21

And they sing (A)the song of Moses, (B)the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

(C)“Great and amazing are your deeds,
    O Lord God the Almighty!
(D)Just and true are your ways,
    O King of the nations![a]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 15:3 Some manuscripts the ages

21 And Miriam sang to them:

(A)“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

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12 Then (A)they believed his words;
    they (B)sang his praise.

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The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You[a] will say (A)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
    for though you were angry with me,
(B)your anger turned away,
    that you might comfort me.

“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (C)the Lord God[b] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

(D)With joy you[c] will draw water from the wells of salvation. (E)And you will say in that day:

(F)“Give thanks to the Lord,
    call upon his name,
(G)make known his deeds among the peoples,
    proclaim (H)that his name is exalted.

(I)“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
    let this be made known[d] in all the earth.
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
    for great (J)in your[e] midst is (K)the Holy One of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1
  2. Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
  3. Isaiah 12:3 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 3, 4
  4. Isaiah 12:5 Or this is made known
  5. Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion

10 (A)Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep,
who made the depths of the sea a way
    for the redeemed to pass over?
11 (B)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
    and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
    they shall obtain gladness and joy,
    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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21 (A)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
22 And let them (B)offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
    and (C)tell of his deeds in (D)songs of joy!

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(A)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!

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15 (A)He disarmed the rulers and authorities[a] and (B)put them to open shame, by (C)triumphing over them in him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:15 Probably demonic rulers and authorities
  2. Colossians 2:15 Or in it (that is, the cross)

15 (A)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!

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David's Song of Deliverance

22 And David spoke (A)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. (B)He said,

(C)“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
    (D)my[a] God, my rock, (E)in whom I take refuge,
(F)my shield, and (G)the horn of my salvation,
    (H)my stronghold and (I)my refuge,
    my savior; you save me from violence.
I call upon the Lord, who is (J)worthy to be praised,
    and I am saved from my enemies.

(K)“For the waves of death encompassed me,
    the torrents of destruction assailed me;[b]
(L)the cords of Sheol entangled me;
    the snares of death confronted me.

(M)“In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry (N)came to his ears.

“Then (O)the earth reeled and rocked;
    (P)the foundations of the heavens trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.
Smoke went up from his nostrils,[c]
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    (Q)glowing coals flamed forth from him.
10 (R)He bowed the heavens and (S)came down;
    (T)thick darkness was under his feet.
11 He rode on a cherub and flew;
    he was seen on (U)the wings of the wind.
12 He made (V)darkness around him (W)his canopy,
    thick clouds, a gathering of water.
13 Out of the brightness before him
    (X)coals of fire flamed forth.
14 (Y)The Lord thundered from heaven,
    and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out (Z)arrows and scattered them;
    lightning, and routed them.
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 (AA)blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17 (AB)“He sent from on high, he took me;
    he drew me out of many waters.
18 He rescued me from my strong enemy,
    from those who hated me,
    for they were too mighty for me.
19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my support.
20 (AC)He brought me out into a broad place;
    he rescued me, because (AD)he delighted in me.

21 “The Lord (AE)dealt with me according to my righteousness;
    according to the (AF)cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
22 (AG)For I have kept the ways of the Lord
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 (AH)For all his rules were before me,
    and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
24 I was (AI)blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.
25 (AJ)And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
    according to my cleanness in his sight.

26 (AK)“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the (AL)blameless man you show yourself blameless;
27 with the purified you deal purely,
    and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
28 (AM)You save a humble people,
    (AN)but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29 (AO)For you are my lamp, O Lord,
    and my God lightens my darkness.
30 For by you I can run against a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
31 This God—(AP)his way is perfect;
    the (AQ)word of the Lord proves true;
    he is (AR)a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

32 “For who is God, but the Lord?
    (AS)And who is a rock, except our God?
33 This God is my (AT)strong refuge
    and has made my[d] way blameless.[e]
34 (AU)He made my feet like the feet of a deer
    and set me secure (AV)on the heights.
35 (AW)He trains my hands for war,
    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
36 You have given me the shield of your salvation,
    and your gentleness made me great.
37 (AX)You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
    and my feet[f] did not slip;
38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
    and did not turn back until they were consumed.
39 I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;
    they fell (AY)under my feet.
40 For you equipped me with strength for the battle;
    you made (AZ)those who rise against me sink under me.
41 You (BA)made my enemies turn their backs to me,[g]
    those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
42 They looked, but there was none to save;
    they cried to the Lord, but (BB)he did not answer them.
43 I beat them fine (BC)as the dust of the earth;
    I crushed them and stamped them down (BD)like the mire of the streets.

44 “You delivered me from strife with my people;[h]
    you kept me as the head of (BE)the nations;
    (BF)people whom I had not known served me.
45 Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
46 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling[i] (BG)out of their fortresses.

47 “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be (BH)my God, (BI)the rock of my salvation,
48 the God who gave me vengeance
    and (BJ)brought down peoples under me,
49 who brought me out from my enemies;
    you exalted me above (BK)those who rose against me;
    you delivered me from (BL)men of violence.

50 (BM)“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,
    and sing praises to your name.
51 (BN)Great salvation he brings[j] to his king,
    and shows steadfast love to (BO)his anointed,
    to David and his offspring (BP)forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:3 Septuagint (compare Psalm 18:2); Hebrew lacks my
  2. 2 Samuel 22:5 Or terrified me
  3. 2 Samuel 22:9 Or in his wrath
  4. 2 Samuel 22:33 Or his; also verse 34
  5. 2 Samuel 22:33 Compare Psalm 18:32; Hebrew he has blamelessly set my way free, or he has made my way spring up blamelessly
  6. 2 Samuel 22:37 Hebrew ankles
  7. 2 Samuel 22:41 Or You gave me my enemies' necks
  8. 2 Samuel 22:44 Septuagint with the peoples
  9. 2 Samuel 22:46 Compare Psalm 18:45; Hebrew equipped themselves
  10. 2 Samuel 22:51 Or He is a tower of salvation

The Song of Deborah and Barak

(A)Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:

“That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
    that (B)the people offered themselves willingly,
    bless the Lord!

“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
    to the Lord I will sing;
    I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Lord, (C)when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
(D)the earth trembled
    and the heavens dropped,
    yes, the clouds dropped water.
The mountains (E)quaked before the Lord,
    (F)even Sinai before the Lord,[a] the God of Israel.

“In the days of (G)Shamgar, son of Anath,
    in the days of (H)Jael, (I)the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.
The villagers ceased in Israel;
    they ceased to be until I arose;
    I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
(J)When new gods were chosen,
    then war was in the gates.
(K)Was shield or spear to be seen
    among forty thousand in Israel?
My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
    who (L)offered themselves willingly among the people.
    Bless the Lord.

10 “Tell of it, (M)you who ride on white donkeys,
    you who sit on rich carpets[b]
    and you who walk by the way.
11 To the sound of musicians[c] at the watering places,
    there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord,
    the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.

“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.

12 (N)“Awake, awake, Deborah!
    Awake, awake, break out in a song!
Arise, Barak, (O)lead away your captives,
    O son of Abinoam.
13 Then down marched the remnant of the noble;
    the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty.
14 From (P)Ephraim their root (Q)they marched down into the valley,[d]
    following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from (R)Machir marched down the commanders,
    and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's[e] staff;
15 the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,
    and Issachar faithful to (S)Barak;
    into the valley they rushed at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.
16 Why did you sit still (T)among the sheepfolds,
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.
17 (U)Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
    (V)and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
(W)Asher sat still (X)at the coast of the sea,
    staying by his landings.
18 (Y)Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;
    (Z)Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.

19 “The kings came, they fought;
    then fought the kings of Canaan,
at (AA)Taanach, by the waters of (AB)Megiddo;
    (AC)they got no spoils of silver.
20 (AD)From heaven the stars fought,
    from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21 (AE)The torrent Kishon swept them away,
    the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
    March on, my soul, with might!

22 “Then loud beat the horses' hoofs
    with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

23 “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
    curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
(AF)because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
    to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

24 “Most blessed of women be (AG)Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
25 (AH)He asked for water and she gave him milk;
    she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.
26 (AI)She sent her hand to the tent peg
    and her right hand to the workmen's mallet;
she struck Sisera;
    she crushed his head;
    she shattered and pierced his temple.
27 Between her feet
    he sank, he fell, he lay still;
between her feet
    he sank, he fell;
where he sank,
    there he fell—dead.

28 (AJ)“Out of the window she peered,
    the mother of Sisera wailed through (AK)the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
29 Her wisest princesses answer,
    indeed, she answers herself,
30 ‘Have they not found and (AL)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?’

31 (AM)“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
    But your friends be (AN)like the sun (AO)as he rises in his might.”

(AP)And the land had rest for forty years.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:5 Or before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord
  2. Judges 5:10 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; it may connote saddle blankets
  3. Judges 5:11 Or archers; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  4. Judges 5:14 Septuagint; Hebrew in Amalek
  5. Judges 5:14 Hebrew commander's

11 Now I know that (A)the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they (B)dealt arrogantly with the people.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:11 Hebrew with them

27 (A)So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea (B)returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord (C)threw[a] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

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  1. Exodus 14:27 Hebrew shook off

17 And (A)I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and (B)I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians (C)shall know that I am the Lord, (D)when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

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