¹⁶ This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,^(A)

²⁷ who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up^(A) your streams,’

² When I came, why was there no one?
    When I called, why was there no one to answer?^(A)
Was my arm too short^(B) to deliver you?
    Do I lack the strength^(C) to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke^(D) I dry up the sea,^(E)
    I turn rivers into a desert;^(F)
their fish rot for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

¹⁰ Was it not you who dried up the sea,^(A)
    the waters of the great deep,^(B)
who made a road in the depths of the sea^(C)
    so that the redeemed^(D) might cross over?
¹¹ Those the Lord has rescued^(E) will return.
    They will enter Zion with singing;^(F)
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy^(G) will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(H)