Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:10 in other translations
| BSB | But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. |
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| WEB | You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. |
| ASV | Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters. |
| YLT | Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters. |
| DARBY | Thou didst blow with thy breath, the sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty waters. |
| BBE | You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters. |
| Webster | Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters. |
What does Exodus 15:10 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 15:1-21
This song is the most ancient we know of. It is a holy song, to the honour of God, to exalt his name, and celebrate his praise, and his only, not in the least to magnify any man. Holiness to the Lord is in every part of it. It may be considered as typical, and prophetical of the final destruction of the enemies of the church. Happy the people whose God is the Lord. They have work to do, temptations to grapple with…
Exodus 15:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 15:10
- Exodus 14:27-28
And 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. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 14:21
And 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.
- Isaiah 11:15
And 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.
- Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
- Deuteronomy 11:4
And 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;
- Matthew 8:27
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
- Jeremiah 10:13
When 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.
- Psalms 147:18
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Psalms 135:7
He 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.
- Amos 4:13
For, 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.
- Psalms 74:13-14
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- Genesis 8:1
And 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;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Exodus 15:11
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exodus 15:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Soplaste con tu viento, cubriólos la mar: hundiéronse como plomo en las impetuosas aguas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu as soufflé de ton souffle, la mer les a couverts; ils se sont enfoncés comme du plomb dans les eaux magnifiques. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du hauchtest mit deinem Odem-das Meer bedeckte sie; sie sanken unter wie Blei in die gewaltigen Wasser. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Flavit spiritus tuus, et operuit eos mare: submersi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis vehementibus. |