"Between Blessing & Blessing"
Exodus 15 (NASB)
1 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.2 The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My fathers God, and I will extol Him.3 The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name.4 Pharaohs chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.5 The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.7 And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.8 At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.10 You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.11 Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?12 You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.13 In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.16 Terror and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You have purchased.17 You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.19 For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.20 Miriam the prophetess, Aarons sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.21 Miriam answered them, Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.24 So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, What shall we drink?25 Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.26 And He said, If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.27 Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
Psalms 106 (NASB)
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can show forth all His praise?3 How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.6 We have sinned like our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.11 The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.13 They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.18 And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.19 They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,22 Wonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the Red Sea.23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.26 Therefore He swore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations And scatter them in the lands.28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed.31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.32 They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.34 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them,35 But they mingled with the nations And learned their practices,36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood.39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.40 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.43 Many times He would deliver them; They, however, were rebellious in their counsel, And so sank down in their iniquity.44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry;45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.46 He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.47 Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD!
1 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.2 The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My fathers God, and I will extol Him.3 The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name.4 Pharaohs chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.5 The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.7 And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.8 At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.10 You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.11 Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?12 You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.13 In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.16 Terror and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You have purchased.17 You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.19 For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.20 Miriam the prophetess, Aarons sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.21 Miriam answered them, Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.24 So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, What shall we drink?25 Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.26 And He said, If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.27 Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
Psalms 106 (NASB)
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can show forth all His praise?3 How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.6 We have sinned like our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.11 The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.13 They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.18 And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.19 They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,22 Wonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the Red Sea.23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.26 Therefore He swore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations And scatter them in the lands.28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed.31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.32 They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.34 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them,35 But they mingled with the nations And learned their practices,36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood.39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.40 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.43 Many times He would deliver them; They, however, were rebellious in their counsel, And so sank down in their iniquity.44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry;45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.46 He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.47 Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD!