6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.
The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power. The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.
Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?
<A Psalm.> O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.
O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you. You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm. Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters. Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it. You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name. Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.
Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all. Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.
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Commentary on Exodus 15 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 15
In this chapter,
Exd 15:1-21
Having read how that complete victory of Israel over the Egyptians was obtained, here we are told how it was celebrated; those that were to hold their peace while the deliverance was in working (ch. 14:14) must not hold their peace now that it was wrought; the less they had to do then the more they had to do now. If God accomplishes deliverance by his own immediate power, it redounds so much the more to his glory. Moses, no doubt by divine inspiration, indited this song, and delivered it to the children of Israel, to be sung before they stirred from the place where they saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore. Observe,
Exd 15:22-27
It should seem, it was with some difficulty that Moses prevailed with Israel to leave that triumphant shore on which they sang the foregoing song. They were so taken up with the sight, or with the song, or with the spoiling of the dead bodies, that they cared not to go forward, but Moses with much ado brought them from the Red Sea into a wilderness. The pleasures of our way to Canaan must not retard our progress, but quicken it, though we have a wilderness before us. Now here we are told,