¹ Viešpats kalbėjo Mozei:

² “Sakyk izraelitams, kad jie apsistotų ties Pi Hahirotu, tarp Migdolo ir jūros. Priešais Baal Cefoną pasistatykite stovyklą prie jūros.

³ Tada faraonas sakys apie jus: ‘Jie pasiklydo krašte, dykumos juos sulaiko!’

⁴ Aš užkietinsiu faraono širdį, ir jis jus vysis, kad būčiau pašlovintas per faraoną ir visą jo kariuomenę ir egiptiečiai žinotų, jog Aš esu Viešpats”. Jie taip ir padarė.

⁵ Egipto karaliui pranešė, kad tauta pabėgo. Tada faraono ir jo tarnų širdys atsisuko prieš šitą tautą ir jie kalbėjo: “Ką padarėme, išleisdami Izraelį, kad mums nebetarnautų?”

⁶ Jis paruošė savo vežimą ir pasiėmė savo žmones su savimi.

⁷ Jis pasiėmė šešis šimtus rinktinių kovos vežimų ir paskyrė viršininkus jiems.

⁸ Viešpats užkietino faraono, Egipto karaliaus, širdį, ir jis persekiojo Izraelio vaikus. Bet Izraelio vaikus išvedė galinga ranka.

⁹ Faraono žirgai, vežimai, raiteliai ir visa jo kariuomenė pasivijo juos, apsistojusius prie jūros, ties Pi Hahirotu, priešais Baal Cefoną.

¹⁰ Kai faraonas priartėjo, Izraelio vaikai pakėlė akis ir pamatė atžygiuojančius iš paskos egiptiečius. Jie labai išsigando ir šaukėsi Viešpaties.

¹¹ Jie sakė Mozei: “Nejaugi Egipte nebuvo kapų, kad mus išvedei mirti dykumoje? Ką mums padarei, išvesdamas iš Egipto?

¹² Argi mes tau nesakėme, būdami Egipte: ‘Palik mus tarnauti egiptiečiams’. Mums juk būtų buvę geriau tarnauti egiptiečiams, negu mirti dykumoje”.

¹³ Mozė atsakė: “Nebijokite, stovėkite ramiai ir stebėkite Viešpaties išgelbėjimą, kurį Jis šiandien įvykdys. Egiptiečių, kuriuos šiandien matote, niekados daugiau nebematysite.

¹⁴ Viešpats kariaus už jus, o jūs būkite ramūs!”

¹⁵ Viešpats tarė Mozei: “Ko šauki? Sakyk izraelitams, kad eitų pirmyn.

¹⁶ O tu pakelk lazdą, ištiesk ranką link jūros ir perskirk ją. Izraelitai sausuma pereis per jūrą.

¹⁷ Aš užkietinsiu egiptiečių širdis, ir jie vysis jus, ir Aš būsiu pašlovintas per faraoną ir visą jo kariuomenę, kovos vežimus ir raitelius.

¹⁸ Egiptiečiai žinos, kad Aš esu Viešpats, kai būsiu pašlovintas per faraoną, jo vežimus ir raitelius”.

¹⁹ Tada Dievo angelas, kuris ėjo Izraelio pulkų priekyje, pasitraukė už jų. Debesies stulpas iš jų priekio atsistojo užpakalyje jų.

²⁰ Jis buvo tarp egiptiečių stovyklos ir Izraelio stovyklos; tamsus debesis dengė egiptiečius, o izraelitams buvo šviesu. Taip jie per naktį nepriartėjo vieni prie kitų.

²¹ Mozė ištiesė ranką link jūros. Viešpats smarkiu rytų vėju, kuris pūtė per naktį, išdžiovino jūrą, ir vandenys persiskyrė.

²² Izraelitai ėjo sausu jūros dugnu; vanduo jiems buvo siena iš dešinės ir kairės.

²³ Egiptiečiai, juos vydamiesi, sekė jūros dugnu su kovos vežimais ir raiteliais.

²⁴ ytui auštant, Viešpats iš ugnies ir debesies stulpo pažvelgė į egiptiečių kariuomenę ir sukėlė sąmyšį jų tarpe.

²⁵ Jis numovė vežimų ratus, ir tie sunkiai begalėjo judėti. Egiptiečiai sakė: “Bėkime nuo izraelitų, nes Viešpats kovoja už juos prieš egiptiečius”.

²⁶ Tada Viešpats tarė Mozei: “Ištiesk ranką link jūros, kad vanduo užlietų egiptiečius, jų vežimus ir raitelius!”

²⁷ Mozė ištiesė ranką, ir, rytui brėkštant, jūra sugrįžo į pirmykštę vietą; bėgančius egiptiečius užliejo vanduo. Taip Viešpats sunaikino egiptiečius jūroje.

²⁸ Vanduo sugrįžo ir užliejo visą faraono kariuomenę, karo vežimus ir raitelius. Nė vienas jų neišliko.

²⁹ O izraelitai perėjo sausu jūros dugnu, vanduo jiems buvo siena dešinėje ir kairėje.

³⁰ Taip Viešpats išgelbėjo izraelitus iš egiptiečių; jie matė negyvus egiptiečius ant jūros kranto.

³¹ Izraelis matė galingą darbą, kurį Viešpats padarė egiptiečiams. Tauta bijojo Viešpaties. Jie tikėjo Viešpačiu ir Jo tarnu Moze.

¹ Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

³ Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

⁷ that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

⁸ and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰ They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

¹¹ They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

¹² He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

¹³ He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

¹⁴ In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

¹⁵ He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

¹⁸ They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

¹⁹ Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

²¹ Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

²² because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

²³ Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

²⁴ He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

²⁷ He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

²⁸ He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

²⁹ So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

³⁰ They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

³¹ when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

³² For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

³³ Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

³⁷ For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴² They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

⁴⁴ he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶ He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

⁴⁸ He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹ He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

⁵¹ and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵² But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³ He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴ He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

⁵⁷ but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰ So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

⁶¹ and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶² He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

⁶³ Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

⁶⁶ He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷ Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

⁷⁰ He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹ from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

⁷² So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.