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.
- 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.
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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 to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Exod 14:21Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Matt 8:27The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Isa 11:15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
- Exod 15:5The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
- Exod 14:27–28Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
- Ps 74:13–14You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
- Ps 147:18He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Jer 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Gen 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
- Ps 135:7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings 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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