Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone. New Living Translation The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. English Standard Version The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. Berean Standard Bible The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone. King James Bible The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. New King James Version The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone. New American Standard Bible “The waters cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone. NASB 1995 “The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone. NASB 1977 “The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone. Legacy Standard Bible The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone. Amplified Bible “The deep [water] covers them; [Clad in armor] they sank into the depths like a stone. Christian Standard Bible The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone. Holman Christian Standard Bible The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone. American Standard Version The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. Contemporary English Version They sank to the bottom just like stones. English Revised Version The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. GOD'S WORD® Translation The deep water covered them. They sank to the bottom like a rock. Good News Translation The deep sea covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. International Standard Version The deep covered them, they went down into the depths like a rock. Majority Standard Bible The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone. NET Bible The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone. New Heart English Bible The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. Webster's Bible Translation The depths have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone. World English Bible The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe depths cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone. Young's Literal Translation The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone. Smith's Literal Translation The depths will cover them: they will go down into the deep as a stone. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThe depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone. Catholic Public Domain Version The abyss has covered them. They descended into the depths like a stone. New American Bible The flood waters covered them, they sank into the depths like a stone. New Revised Standard Version The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe depths have covered them; they sank to the bottom like stones. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated The depths covered them; they went down to the depth and they sank like a stone. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The deeps cover them-- They went down into the depths like a stone. Brenton Septuagint Translation He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Moses' Song of Deliverance…4Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. 5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone. 6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.… Cross References Psalm 106:11 The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained. Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters. Exodus 14:27-28 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea. / The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. Isaiah 51:10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over? Psalm 136:15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever. Hebrews 11:29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned. Joshua 24:7 So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time. Psalm 78:53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies. Isaiah 43:16-17 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters, / who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Psalm 77:16-19 The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken. / The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. / Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. ... Revelation 15:3 and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Psalm 114:3-5 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; / the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. / Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, Isaiah 63:12-13 who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, / who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble? Acts 7:36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. Treasury of Scripture The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. depths Exodus 14:28 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. Ezekiel 27:34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. Jonah 2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. they Nehemiah 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. Jeremiah 51:63,64 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: … Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. Jump to Previous Bottom Cover Covered Deep Deeps Depths Floods Sank Stone Sunk Waters WavesJump to Next Bottom Cover Covered Deep Deeps Depths Floods Sank Stone Sunk Waters WavesExodus 15 1. The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance22. The people want water in the desert 23. The waters at Marah are bitter, 24. they murmur, 25. Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction 27. They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees The depths have covered them; This phrase refers to the miraculous event at the Red Sea, where the waters returned to their place after the Israelites had crossed safely, engulfing the pursuing Egyptian army. The "depths" signify the deep waters of the sea, emphasizing the totality and finality of the Egyptians' defeat. This event is a demonstration of God's power and protection over His people, fulfilling His promise to deliver them from slavery. The covering of the Egyptians by the sea can be seen as a form of divine judgment, reminiscent of the flood in Genesis where the waters covered the earth as a judgment against sin. they sank there like a stone. Persons / Places / Events 1. The IsraelitesGod's chosen people, who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and witnessed the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. 2. The Egyptians The oppressors of the Israelites, who pursued them into the Red Sea and were ultimately defeated. 3. The Red Sea The body of water that God miraculously parted to allow the Israelites to escape from the Egyptians. 4. Moses The leader of the Israelites, who, under God's command, led the people out of Egypt and through the Red Sea. 5. The Song of Moses A song of praise and thanksgiving sung by Moses and the Israelites after their deliverance from the Egyptians. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty and PowerThe event at the Red Sea demonstrates God's supreme power over nature and His ability to deliver His people from seemingly impossible situations. Judgment and Deliverance The sinking of the Egyptians serves as a reminder of God's judgment against those who oppose Him and His deliverance of those who trust in Him. Faith and Obedience The Israelites' crossing of the Red Sea required faith and obedience to God's command, illustrating the importance of trusting God even when the path seems uncertain. Remembrance and Praise The Song of Moses is a model for remembering and praising God for His mighty works and faithfulness in our lives.(5) The depths have covered them.--Rather, covered them. The first stanza, or strophe, here terminates--the first historical review is completed. In it attention is concentrated on the one great fact of the deliverance by the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. At the close it is probable that Miriam, with her chorus of women, took up the refrain of Exodus 15:1, and slightly modifying it, sang, as recorded in Exodus 15:21, "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath glorified himself gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."Verse 5. - The depths have covered them. Rather "covered them." Into the bottom. Literally, "into the abyss." Like a stone. The warriors who fought in chariots commonly wore coats of mail, composed of bronze plates sewn on to a linen base, and overlapping one another. The coats covered the arms to the elbow, and descended nearly to the knee. They must have been exceedingly heavy: and the warrior who wore one must have sunk at once, without a struggle, like a stone or a lump of lead (verse 10). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The depthsתְּהֹמֹ֖ת (tə·hō·mōṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep have covered them; יְכַסְיֻ֑מוּ (yə·ḵas·yu·mū) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover they sank יָרְד֥וּ (yā·rə·ḏū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend [there] בִמְצוֹלֹ֖ת (ḇim·ṣō·w·lōṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 4688: A deep place like כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-) Preposition Strong's 3644: Like, as, when a stone. אָֽבֶן׃ (’ā·ḇen) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 68: A stone Links Exodus 15:5 NIVExodus 15:5 NLT Exodus 15:5 ESV Exodus 15:5 NASB Exodus 15:5 KJV Exodus 15:5 BibleApps.com Exodus 15:5 Biblia Paralela Exodus 15:5 Chinese Bible Exodus 15:5 French Bible Exodus 15:5 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 15:5 The deeps cover them (Exo. Ex) |
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