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And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:

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

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  1. 15.3 Other ancient authorities read the ages

Great are the works of the Lord,
    studied by all who delight in them.

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The Song of Moses

15 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:

“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
    horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.(A)
The Lord is my strength and my might,[a]
    and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him;
    my father’s God, and I will exalt him.(B)
The Lord is a warrior;
    the Lord is his name.(C)

Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he cast into the sea;
    his elite officers were sunk in the Red Sea.[b](D)
The floods covered them;
    they went down into the depths like a stone.(E)
Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power—
    your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.(F)
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries;
    you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.(G)
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
    the floods stood up in a heap;
    the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.(H)
The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake;
    I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them.
    I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’(I)
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
    they sank like lead in the mighty waters.(J)

11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
    Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
    awesome in splendor, doing wonders?(K)
12 You stretched out your right hand;
    the earth swallowed them.

13 In your steadfast love you led the people whom you redeemed;
    you guided them by your strength to your holy abode.(L)
14 The peoples heard; they trembled;
    pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia.(M)
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
    trembling seized the leaders of Moab;
    all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.(N)
16 Terror and dread fell upon them;
    by the might of your arm, they became still as a stone
until your people, O Lord, passed by,
    until the people whom you acquired passed by.(O)
17 You brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your own possession,
    the place, O Lord, that you made your abode,
    the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.(P)
18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.”(Q)

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  1. 15.2 Or song
  2. 15.4 Or Sea of Reeds

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(A)

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17 The Lord is just in all his ways
    and kind in all his doings.

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They sing a new song:

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to break its seals,
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God
    saints from[a] every tribe and language and people and nation;(A)
10 you have made them a kingdom and priests serving[b] our God,
    and they will reign[c] on earth.”(B)

11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,(C) 12 singing with full voice,

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”

13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them, singing,

“To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might
forever and ever!”(D)

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  1. 5.9 Gk ransomed for God from
  2. 5.10 Gk priests to
  3. 5.10 Other ancient authorities read they reign

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s[a] house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.(A)

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  1. 3.5 Gk his

22 For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler;
    the Lord is our king; he will save us.(A)

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Those who are wise understand these things;
    those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
    and the upright walk in them,
    but transgressors stumble in them.(A)

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The Coming Ruler of God’s People

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you;
    triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.(A)

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Government with Justice Predicted

32 See, a king will reign in righteousness,
    and princes[a] will rule with justice.(A)
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
    a covert from the tempest,
like streams of water in a dry place,
    like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.(B)

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  1. 32.1 Gk: Heb and for princes

The Song of Moses

30 Then Moses recited the words of this song, to the very end, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:

32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
    let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)
May my teaching drop like the rain,
    my speech condense like the dew,
like gentle rain on grass,
    like showers on new growth.(B)
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord,
    ascribe greatness to our God!(C)

The Rock, his work is perfect,
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
    just and upright is he;(D)
yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,[a]
    a perverse and crooked generation.(E)
Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
    who made you and established you?(F)
Remember the days of old;
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.(G)
When the Most High[b] apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;[c](H)
the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.(I)

10 He sustained[d] him in a desert land,
    in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the apple of his eye.(J)
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
    and bears them aloft on its pinions,(K)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
    no foreign god was with him.(L)
13 He set him atop the heights of the land
    and fed him with[e] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
    with oil from flinty rock,(M)
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
    together with the choicest wheat—
    you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.(N)
15 Jacob ate his fill;[f]
    Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
    You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
    and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(O)
16 They made him jealous with strange gods;
    with abhorrent things they provoked him.(P)
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
    to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
    whom your ancestors had not feared.(Q)
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;[g]
    you forgot the God who gave you birth.(R)

19 The Lord saw it and was jealous;[h]
    he spurned[i] his sons and daughters.(S)
20 He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom there is no faithfulness.(T)
21 They made me jealous with what is no god,
    provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
    provoke them with a foolish nation.(U)
22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
    and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.(V)
23 I will heap disasters upon them,
    spend my arrows against them:(W)
24 wasting hunger,
    burning consumption,
    bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
    with venom of things crawling in the dust.(X)
25 In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old gray head.(Y)
26 I said, “I will make an end of them[j]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”(Z)
27 but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’(AA)

28 They are a nation void of sense;
    there is no understanding in them.
29 If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would discern what their end would be.(AB)
30 How could one have routed a thousand
    and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
    the Lord had given them up?(AC)
31 Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
    our enemies are fools.[k](AD)
32 Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of serpents,
    the cruel venom of asps.(AE)

34 Is not this laid up in store with me,
    sealed up in my treasuries,(AF)
35 for the day of vengeance[l] and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.(AG)

36 Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,
    have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
    neither bond nor free remaining.(AH)
37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rock in which they took refuge,(AI)
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

39 See now that I, even I, am he;
    there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
    I wound, and I heal;
    and no one can deliver from my hand.(AJ)
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven
    and swear, As I live forever,
41 when I whet my flashing sword
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.(AK)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the long-haired enemy.’(AL)

43 Praise, O heavens,[m] his people;
    worship him, all you gods![n]
For he will avenge the blood of his children[o]
    and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him[p]
    and cleanse the land for his people.”[q](AM)

Footnotes

  1. 32.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 32.8 Traditional rendering of Heb Elyon
  3. 32.8 Q ms Compare Gk Tg: MT the Israelites
  4. 32.10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found
  5. 32.13 Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate
  6. 32.15 Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill
  7. 32.18 Or that fathered you
  8. 32.19 Q mss Gk: MT lacks was jealous
  9. 32.19 Cn: Heb he spurned because of provocation
  10. 32.26 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  11. 32.31 Gk: Heb judges
  12. 32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine
  13. 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT nations
  14. 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
  15. 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT his servants
  16. 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
  17. 32.43 Q ms Sam Gk Vg: MT his land his people

And I heard the angel of the waters say,

“You are just, O Holy One, who are and were,
    for you have judged these things;(A)
because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
    you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”

And I heard the altar respond,

“Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty,
    your judgments are true and just!”(B)

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10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying,

“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!”(A)

11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

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17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(A)

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    for his judgments are true and just;
he has judged the great whore[a]
    who corrupted the earth with her prostitution,
and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”(A)

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  1. 19.2 Or prostitute

and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who have been redeemed from the earth.

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For the Lord is good;
    his steadfast love endures forever
    and his faithfulness to all generations.(A)

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The Sign of the Covenant

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be blameless.(A)

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  1. 17.1 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

17 singing,

“We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty,
    who are and who were,
for you have taken your great power
    and begun to reign.(A)

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And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and inside. Day and night without ceasing they sing,

“Holy, holy, holy,
the Lord God the Almighty,
    who was and is and is to come.”(A)

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20 When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?”(A)

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21 Declare and present your case;
    take counsel together![a]
Who told this long ago?
    Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
    There is no other god besides me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
    there is no one besides me.(A)

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  1. 45.21 Syr Vg: Heb let them take counsel

They will proclaim the might of your awesome deeds,
    and I will declare your greatness.(A)

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22 The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the chief cornerstone.(A)
23 This is the Lord’s doing;
    it is marvelous in our eyes.

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