But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Parallel translations
- WEB You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- KJV Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- NKJV You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- NASB “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- NLT But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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Quick answer
God merely blew with His wind, and the sea covered the boasting enemy, who sank like lead.
Overview
Over against Egypt's many boasts stands God's single act: one breath, and they sink. The ease of God's victory humbles all human pretension to power. The proud who sank 'like lead' show how swiftly God reverses the schemes of His enemies.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 11:4what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
- Exod 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
- Matt 8:27The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”
- Isa 11:15The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
- Exod 15:5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
- Exod 14:27–28So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
- Ps 74:13–14You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- Ps 147:18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
- Jer 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
- Ps 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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