Exodus 15:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The deep covered them, they went down into the depths like a rock.

NET Bible (©2006)
The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The deep water covered them. They sank to the bottom like a rock.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The depths have covered them: they sank to the bottom as a stone.

American King James Version
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

American Standard Version
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

Darby Bible Translation
The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.

English Revised Version
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.

Young's Literal Translation
The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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, and afflictions to bear, and are weak in themselves; but his grace is their strength. They are often in sorrow, but in him they have comfort; he is their song. Sin, and death, and hell threaten them, but he is, and will be their salvation. The Lord is a God of almighty power, and woe to those that strive with their Maker! He is a God of matchless perfection; he is glorious in holiness; his holiness is his glory. His holiness appears in the hatred of sin, and his wrath against obstinate sinners. It appears in the deliverance of Israel, and his faithfulness to his own promise. He is fearful in praises; that which is matter of praise to the servants of God, is very dreadful to his enemies. He is doing wonders, things out of the common course of nature; wondrous to those in whose favour they are wrought, who are so unworthy, that they had no reason to expect them. There were wonders of power and wonders of grace; in both, God was to be humbly adored.

Pulpit Commentary

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).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The depths have covered them,.... The depths of the sea covered Pharaoh and his host, so as to be seen no more; and in like manner will mystical Babylon, or antichrist, be destroyed, and be no more found and seen; as likewise the sins of God's people, being cast into the depths of the sea, and covered with the blood of Christ, will be seen no more; when they are sought for, they shall not be found:

they sunk into the bottom as a stone; into the bottom of the sea, as a stone thrown into anybody of water sinks and rises not up again; this circumstance is observed by Nehemiah 9:11.

their persecutors thou threwest into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters; and thus a stone like a millstone being taken by an angel and cast into the sea, is made an emblem of the irrecoverable ruin and destruction of Babylon, or antichrist, Revelation 18:21.

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Moses' Song of Deliverance
…4Pharaoh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy. …

Exodus 15:10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:16 terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone-- until your people pass by, LORD, until the people you bought pass by.
Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.
Psalm 106:11 The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
Proverbs 8:24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;