Exodus 15:10
New International Version
But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

New Living Translation
But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

English Standard Version
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Berean Standard Bible
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

King James Bible
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

New King James Version
You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

New American Standard Bible
“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

NASB 1995
“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

NASB 1977
“Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Legacy Standard Bible
You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Amplified Bible
“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; [Clad in armor] they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Christian Standard Bible
But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

American Standard Version
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Your wind blew and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou sentest forth thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

Contemporary English Version
But when you got furious, they sank like lead, swallowed by ocean waves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

English Revised Version
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your breath blew the sea over them. They sank like lead in the raging water.

Good News Translation
But one breath from you, LORD, and the Egyptians were drowned; they sank like lead in the terrible water.

International Standard Version
"You blew with your breath, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Literal Standard Version
You have blown with Your wind | The sea has covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

Majority Standard Bible
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

New American Bible
When you blew with your breath, the sea covered them; like lead they sank in the mighty waters.

NET Bible
But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

New Revised Standard Version
You blew with your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

New Heart English Bible
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

World English Bible
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

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Context
Moses' Song of Deliverance
9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’ 10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?…

Cross References
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Exodus 14:27
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.

Exodus 14:28
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.

Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son--surely you know!

Jeremiah 46:17
There they will cry out: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.'


Treasury of Scripture

You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

blow

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.

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;

Psalm 74:13,14
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters…

the sea

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.

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;

they sank

Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

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Exodus 15
1. The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance
22. 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














(10) Thou didst blow with thy wind.--A new fact, additional to the narrative in Exodus 14, but in complete harmony with it. As a strong east (southeast) wind had driven the waters of the Bitter Lakes to the north-westward, so (it would seem) their return was aided and hastened by a wind from the opposite direction, which caused the sea to "cover" the Egyptians.

They sank as lead.--Compare Exodus 15:5. To an eye-witness, it would seem, the sudden submersion and disappearance of each warrior, as the waters closed around him, was peculiarly impressive. Each seemed to be swallowed up at once, without a struggle. This would be a natural result of the heavy armour worn by the picked warriors.

In the mighty waters.--With these words the second stanza, or strophe, closes. Miriam and her maidens, it is probable, again interposed with the magnificent refrain, "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath glorified himself gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."

Verse 10. - Thou didst blow with thy wind. Here we have another fact not mentioned in the direct narrative, but entirely harmonising with it. The immediate cause of the return of the waters, as of their retirement, was a wind. This wind must have come from a new quarter, or its effects would not have been to bring the water back. We may reasonasbly suppose a wind to have arisen contrary to the former one, blowing from the north-west or the north, which would have driven the water of the Bitter LaMes southward, and thus produced the effect spoken cf. The effect may, or may not, have been increased by the flow of the tide in the Red Sea They sank as lead. See the comment on verse 5.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But You blew
נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ (nā·šap̄·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5398: To breeze, blow up fresh

with Your breath,
בְרוּחֲךָ֖ (ḇə·rū·ḥă·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

and the sea
יָ֑ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

covered them.
כִּסָּ֣מוֹ (kis·sā·mōw)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

They sank
צָֽלֲלוּ֙ (ṣā·lă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6749: To tumble down, settle by a, waving motion

like lead
כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת (ka·‘ō·w·p̄e·reṯ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5777: Lead (a metal)

in the mighty
אַדִּירִֽים׃ (’ad·dî·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 117: Wide, large, powerful

waters.
בְּמַ֖יִם (bə·ma·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


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