Exodus 15:8
New International Version
By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

New Living Translation
At the blast of your breath, the waters piled up! The surging waters stood straight like a wall; in the heart of the sea the deep waters became hard.

English Standard Version
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

Berean Standard Bible
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

King James Bible
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

New King James Version
And with the blast of Your nostrils The waters were gathered together; The floods stood upright like a heap; The depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

New American Standard Bible
“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

NASB 1995
“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

NASB 1977
“And at the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Legacy Standard Bible
And at the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Amplified Bible
“With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a mound; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Christian Standard Bible
The water heaped up at the blast from your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The waters heaped up at the blast of Your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

American Standard Version
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
By the Breath of your nostrils the waters stood up in a heap; they stood up as if they were flowing in water skins; the depths assembled in the heart of the sea.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And by the breath of thine anger the water parted asunder; the waters were congealed as a wall, the waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.

Contemporary English Version
You were so furious that the sea piled up like a wall, and the ocean depths curdled like cheese.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depth were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

English Revised Version
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as an heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
With a blast from your nostrils, the water piled up. The waves stood up like a dam. The deep water thickened in the middle of the sea.

Good News Translation
You blew on the sea and the water piled up high; it stood up straight like a wall; the deepest part of the sea became solid.

International Standard Version
By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up-- The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Literal Standard Version
And by the wind of Your anger | Waters have been heaped together; Flowings have stood as a heap; Depths have been congealed | In the heart of a sea.

Majority Standard Bible
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

New American Bible
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the flowing waters stood like a mound, the flood waters foamed in the midst of the sea.

NET Bible
By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

New Revised Standard Version
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

New Heart English Bible
With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Webster's Bible Translation
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were collected, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

World English Bible
With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Young's Literal Translation
And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea.

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Context
Moses' Song of Deliverance
7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble. 8At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea. 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.’…

Cross References
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Exodus 14:22
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:29
But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Joshua 3:13
When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD--the Lord of all the earth--touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap."

2 Samuel 22:16
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Psalm 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.


Treasury of Scripture

And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

blast

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.

2 Samuel 22:16
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Job 4:9
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

the floods

Exodus 14:22
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Psalm 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

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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














Verse 8. - With the blast of thy nostril the waters were gathered together. Poetically, Moses describes the east wind which God set in motion as "the blast" or "breath of his nostrils." By means of it, he says, the waters were "gathered together," or "piled up;" then, growing bolder in his imagery, he represents the floods as "standing in a heap" on either side, and the depths as "congealed. No doubt, if these terms are meant to be taken literally, the miracle must have been one in which "the sea" (as Kalisch says) "giving up its nature, formed with its waves a firm wall, and instead of streaming like a fluid, congealed into a hard substance." But the question is, are we justified in taking literally the strong expressions of a highly wrought poetical description?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
At the blast
וּבְר֤וּחַ (ū·ḇə·rū·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of Your nostrils
אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ (’ap·pe·ḵā)
Noun - mdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

the waters
מַ֔יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

piled up;
נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ (ne·‘er·mū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6192: To be heaped up

like
כְמוֹ־ (ḵə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

a wall
נֵ֖ד (nêḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5067: A mound, wave

the currents
נֹזְלִ֑ים (nō·zə·lîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5140: To flow, trickle, drop, distill

stood firm;
נִצְּב֥וּ (niṣ·ṣə·ḇū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5324: To take one's stand, stand

the depths
תְהֹמֹ֖ת (ṯə·hō·mōṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

congealed
קָֽפְא֥וּ (qā·p̄ə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7087: To thicken, condense, congeal

in the heart
בְּלֶב־ (bə·leḇ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

of the sea.
יָֽם׃ (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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