Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as 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.
- BSB But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like 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.
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Cross-references · 12
- Deut 11:4And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
- Exod 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Matt 8:27But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
- Isa 11:15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
- Exod 15:5The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
- Exod 14:27–28And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Ps 74:13–14Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- Ps 147:18He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Jer 10:13When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
- Gen 8:1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Amos 4:13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
- Ps 135:7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
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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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