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Exodus 15:7

And in the greatness of thine exaltation, dost thou tear down thine opposers, - Thou dost send forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as straw;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Epic;   Faith;   God Continued...;   Joy;   Poetry;   Praise;   Psalms;   Readings, Select;   Song;   Stubble;   Thankfulness;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Opposition;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Exodus;   Exodus, book of;   Moses;   Power;   Victory;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God, Names of;   Greatness;   Moses;   Pride;   Vengeance;   Wrath of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Singing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chaff;   Exodus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dance;   Miriam;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hymn;   Omnipotence;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Joy;   Poetry;   Praise;   Wars of the Lord, Book of the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hymns;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - canticle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ouches;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mir'iam;   Mo'ses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   Time Given to Religion;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Consume;   Excellency;   Moses, Song of;   Straw;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Anthropomorphism;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Midrashim, Smaller;   Poetry;   Synagogue, the Great;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 3;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
King James Version
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
Lexham English Bible
And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble.
New Century Version
In your great victory you destroyed those who were against you. Your anger destroyed them, like fire burning straw.
New English Translation
In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Amplified Bible
"In the greatness of Your majesty You overthrow and annihilate those [adversaries] who rise [in rebellion] against You; You send out Your fury, and it consumes them like chaff.
New American Standard Bible
"And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send out Your burning anger, and it consumes them like chaff.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in thy great glorie thou hast ouerthrowen them that rose against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as the stubble.
Legacy Standard Bible
And in the greatness of Your exaltation You pull down those who rise up against You;You send forth Your burning anger, and it devours them as chaff.
Contemporary English Version
What a great victory was yours, as you defeated everyone who opposed you. Your fiery anger wiped them out, as though they were straw.
Complete Jewish Bible
By your great majesty you bring down your enemies; you send out your wrath to consume them like stubble.
Darby Translation
And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.
Easy-to-Read Version
In your great majesty you destroyed those who stood against you. Your anger destroyed them, like fire burning straw.
English Standard Version
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
George Lamsa Translation
And in the greatness of thy might thou hast overthrown them that hate thee; thou sentest thy wrath, and it consumed them like stubble.
Good News Translation
In majestic triumph you overthrow your foes; your anger blazes out and burns them up like straw.
Christian Standard Bible®
You overthrew your adversariesby your great majesty.You unleashed your burning wrath;it consumed them like stubble.
Literal Translation
And in Your majesty's greatness You pull down those rising up against You; You send forth Your wrath; it consumes them like stubble.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And with thy greate glory thou hast destroyed thine aduersaries: thou sentest out yi wrath, & it cosumed them, euen as stobble.
American Standard Version
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Bible in Basic English
When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in thy great glorie thou hast ouerthrowe them that rose vp agaynst thee: thou sendest foorth thy wrath, whiche consumed them euen as stubble.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
King James Version (1611)
And in the greatnesse of thine excellencie thou hast ouerthrowen them, that rose vp against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in the abundance of thy glory thou hast broken the adversaries to pieces: thou sentest forth thy wrath, it devoured them as stubble.
English Revised Version
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Berean Standard Bible
You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And in the mychilnesse of thi glorie thou hast put doun alle myn aduersaries; thou sentist thin ire, that deuouride hem as stobil.
Young's Literal Translation
And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath -- It consumeth them as stubble.
Update Bible Version
And in the greatness of your excellency you overthrow those that rise up against you: You send forth your wrath, it consumes them as stubble.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the greatness of thy excellence thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.
World English Bible
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
New King James Version
And in the greatness of Your excellence You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; It consumed them like stubble.
New Living Translation
In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw.
New Life Bible
In the greatness of Your power You destroy those who fight against You. You send Your burning anger and it burns them like straw.
New Revised Standard
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.
Revised Standard Version
In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

Contextual Overview

1 Then, sang Moses, and the sons of Israel, this song unto Yahweh, and they spake, saying, - I will sing to Yahweh, for he is exalted, exalted, - The horse and his rider, hath he cast into the sea. 2 My might and melody, is Yah, And he became mine, by salvation, - This, is my GOD, and I will glorify him, The God of my father and I will set him on high. 3 Yahweh is a warlike one, - Yahweh, is his name. 4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his train, hath he cast into the sea, - Yea, the choice of his warriors, were sunk in the Sedgy Sea. 5 Roaring deeps, covered them, - They went down in the raging depths like a stone. 6 Thy right hand, O Yahweh is splendid in power, - Thy right hand, O Yahweh dasheth in pieces a foe; 7 And in the greatness of thine exaltation, dost thou tear down thine opposers, - Thou dost send forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as straw; 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils, heaped up are the waters, Upreared like a mound, are the flowing waves, - Roaring deeps are congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 Said the fee - I will pursue - overtake divide spoil, - Take her fill of them - shall my soul, I will bare my sword, root them out - shall my hand. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind they were covered by the sea, - They rolled like lead, into the waters so wide. Who is, like unto thee, among the mighty O Yahweh?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the greatness: Exodus 9:16, Deuteronomy 33:26, Psalms 68:33, Psalms 148:13, Isaiah 5:16, Jeremiah 10:6

them that: Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 37:23, Isaiah 37:29, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 37:38, Micah 4:11, Nahum 1:9-12, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 14:3, Zechariah 14:8, Acts 9:4

consumed: Psalms 59:13, Psalms 83:13, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 47:14, Nahum 1:10, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 3:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:12 - stubble Deuteronomy 7:1 - the Lord 2 Samuel 22:9 - went Job 21:18 - as stubble Job 37:4 - the voice Psalms 111:3 - honourable Luke 1:51 - showed

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
And Yahweh said unto Abram: Come thou on thy way, Out of thy land and out of the place of thy birth and out of the house of thy father, - Unto the land that I will show thee;
Genesis 12:7
And Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said: To thy seed, will I give this land, - And he built there an altar, unto Yahweh who appeared unto him.
Genesis 15:2
And Abram said My Lord Yahweh, what canst thou give me, when, I, am going on childless, - and the heir of my house, is Eliezer, of Damascus,
Genesis 15:4
And lo! a son of my household, is mine heir! And lo! the word of Yahweh came unto him, saying, This one, shall not be thine heir: But one who cometh forth of thy body - hell shall be thine heir.
Genesis 15:7
And he said unto him, - I, am Yahweh, who brought thee forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 15:8
And he said, My Lord Yahweh, whereby, can I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15:15
But, thou, shalt go in unto thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:17
So it came to pass when, the sun, had gone in, and Ira thick darkness, had come on, that lo there was a smoking hearth and torch of fire, which passed through between these pieces.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion;
Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy word, With Abraham his servant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in the greatness of thine excellency,.... Christ has an excellency in him, a greatness of excellency, a superlative one; he has a more excellent name and nature than the angels, being a divine Person; and a more excellent ministry, as man and Mediator, than any of the sons of men, as prophet, priest, and King; and is superlatively excellent in his operations, has wrought out a most excellent righteousness, offered up a more excellent sacrifice than ever was offered, and obtained a great, glorious, and excellent salvation for his people; in consequence of which is what is next asserted:

thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee; against his person and his people, who are in such strict union with him as to be reckoned as himself; and those that rise up against them, he reckons as rising up against him, or as his enemies; and both the one and the other are overthrown by him, as were those that rose up against him in person when on earth, as Herod, Pontius Pilate, the people of the Jews, with the Gentiles, and as will be antichrist and his followers, and all the spiritual enemies of the people of God:

thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble; the wrath of the Lord God Almighty is like fire, and wicked men are as chaff and stubble; and as those cannot stand before fire, but are suddenly and quickly consumed with it; so neither can the wicked, the enemies of Christ and his people, stand before the wrath of the Lamb, when the great day of it is come, but must be presently destroyed by it; see

Isaiah 51:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the deliverance of Israel is associated the development of the national poetry, which finds its first and perfect expression in this magnificent hymn. It was sung by Moses and the people, an expression which evidently points to him as the author. That it was written at the time is an assertion expressly made in the text, and it is supported by the strongest internal evidence. In every age this song gave the tone to the poetry of Israel; especially at great critical epochs of deliverance: and in the book of Revelation Exodus 15:3 it is associated with the final triumph of the Church.

The division of the song into three parts is distinctly marked: Exodus 15:1-5; Exodus 15:6-10; Exodus 15:11-18 : each begins with an ascription of praise to God; each increases in length and varied imagery unto the triumphant close.

Exodus 15:1

He hath triumphed gloriously - Literally, He is gloriously glorious.

The horse and his rider - The word “rider” may include horseman, but applies properly to the charioteer.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and song - My strength and song is Jah. See Psalms 68:4. The name was chosen here by Moses to draw attention to the promise ratified by the name “I am.”

I will prepare Him an habitation - I will glorify Him. Our Authorized Version is open to serious objection, as suggesting a thought (namely, of erecting a temple) which could hardly have been in the mind of Moses at that time, and unsuited to the occasion.

Exodus 15:3

A man of war - Compare Psalms 24:8. The name has on this occasion a special fitness: man had no part in the victory; the battle was the Lord’s.

The Lord is his name - “Jah is His name.” See Exodus 15:2.

Exodus 15:4

Hath He cast - “Hurled,” as from a sling. See Exodus 14:27.

His chosen captains - See Exodus 14:7 note.

Exodus 15:5

As a stone - The warriors in chariots are always represented on the monuments with heavy coats of mail; the corslets of “chosen captains” consisted of plates of highly tempered bronze, with sleeves reaching nearly to the elbow, covering the whole body and the thighs nearly to the knee. The wearers must have sunk at once like a stone, or as we read in Exodus 5:10, like lumps of lead.

Exodus 15:7

Thy wrath - Literally, Thy burning, i. e. the fire of Thy wrath, a word chosen expressly with reference to the effect.

Exodus 15:8

The blast of God’s nostrils corresponds to the natural agency, the east wind Exodus 14:21, which drove the waters back: on the north the waters rose high, overhanging the sands, but kept back by the strongwind: on the south they laid in massive rollers, kept down by the same agency in the deep bed of the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said - The abrupt, gasping utterances; the haste, cupidity and ferocity of the Egyptians; the confusion and disorder of their thoughts, belong to the highest order of poetry. They enable us to realize the feelings which induced Pharaoh and his host to pursue the Israelites over the treacherous sandbanks.

Exodus 15:10

Thou didst blow with thy wind - Notice the solemn majesty of these few words, in immediate contrast with the tumult and confusion of the preceding verse. In Exodus 14:28, we read only, “the waters returned,” here we are told that it was because the wind blew. A sudden change in the direction of the wind would bring back at once the masses of water heaped up on the north.

They sank as lead - See the note at Exodus 15:5.

Exodus 15:11

Among the gods - Compare Psalms 86:8; Deuteronomy 32:16-17. A Hebrew just leaving the land in which polytheism attained its highest development, with gigantic statues and temples of incomparable grandeur, might well on such an occasion dwell upon this consummation of the long series of triumphs by which the “greatness beyond compare” of Yahweh was once for all established.

Exodus 15:13

Thy holy habitation - Either Palestine, regarded as the land of promise, sanctified by manifestations of God to the Patriarchs, and destined to be both the home of God’s people, and the place where His glory and purposes were to be perfectly revealed: or Mount Moriah.

Exodus 15:14

The inhabitants of Palestina - i. e. the country of the Philistines. They were the first who would expect an invasion, and the first whose district would have been invaded but for the faintheartedness of the Israelites.

Exodus 15:15

The dukes of Edom - See Genesis 36:15. It denotes the chieftains, not the kings of Edom.

The mighty men of Moab - The physical strength and great stature of the Moabites are noted in other passages: see Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:41.

Canaan - The name in this, as in many passages of Genesis, designates the whole of Palestine: and is used of course with reference to the promise to Abraham. It was known to the Egyptians, and occurs frequently on the monuments as Pa-kanana, which applies, if not to the whole of Palestine, yet to the northern district under Lebanon, which the Phoenicians occupied and called “Canaan.”

Exodus 15:17

In the mountain of thine inheritance - See Exodus 15:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 15:7. In the greatness of thine excellency — To this wonderful deliverance the Prophet Isaiah refers, Isaiah 63:11-14: "Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name."


 
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