Exodus 15:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָזִּ֤י וְזִמְרָת֙ יָ֔הּ וַֽיְהִי־לִ֖י לִֽישׁוּעָ֑ה זֶ֤ה אֵלִי֙ וְאַנְוֵ֔הוּ אֱלֹהֵ֥י אָבִ֖י וַאֲרֹמְמֶֽנְהוּ׃

Transliteration

ʿāzzî wəzimrāt Yāh wayəhî-lî lîšūʿāh zeh ʾēlî wəʾanwēhū ʾĕlōhê ʾāḇî waʾărōməmenhū

Grammar Details

• *ʿāzzî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my strength
• *wəzimrāt*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and song of
• *Yāh*: divine name, shortened form of YHWH - Yah
• *wayəhî*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he became
• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to/for me
• *lîšūʿāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for salvation
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *ʾēlî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my God
• *wəʾanwēhū*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and I will glorify him
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *ʾāḇî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my father
• *waʾărōməmenhū*: conjunction + polel imperfect 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and I will exalt him

Word Meanings

• *ʿāzzî*: my strength/my power/my refuge
• *zimrāt*: song/music/praise
• *wayəhî-lî lîšūʿāh*: he has become my salvation/he is my deliverance
• *wəʾanwēhū*: I will glorify him/I will adorn him/I will prepare him a habitation/I will praise him

Referenced Verses

• Isa 12:2 : 2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
• Isa 25:1 : 1 O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.
• Ps 59:17 : 17 To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.
• Ps 118:14 : 14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
• Ps 99:5 : 5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.
• Ps 18:46 : 46 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.
• Exod 3:15-16 : 15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations. 16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;
• Ps 145:1 : 1 <A Song of praise. Of David.> Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
• Ps 34:3 : 3 O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.
• Ps 140:7 : 7 O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.
• Ps 99:9 : 9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
• Ps 118:28 : 28 You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.
• Deut 10:21 : 21 He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these works of power which your eyes have seen.
• Ps 18:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
• 2 Sam 22:47 : 47 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:
• Exod 3:6 : 6 And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
• Ps 109:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;
• Ps 27:1 : 1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
• Ps 28:8 : 8 The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
• Ps 30:1 : 1 <A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.
• Ps 62:6-7 : 6 He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved. 7 In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.
• Ps 132:5 : 5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
• Isa 66:1 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
• Jer 3:23 : 23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
• Hab 3:17-19 : 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: 18 Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation. 19 The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Luke 1:77 : 77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,
• Luke 2:30 : 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation,
• John 4:22 : 22 You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
• John 5:23 : 23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
• Acts 4:12 : 12 And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
• 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
• Phil 2:11 : 11 And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
• Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
• Rev 5:9-9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, 10 And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth. 11 And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. 13 And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever. 14 And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.
• Rev 19:1 : 1 After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God:
• Ps 22:3 : 3 But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
• Ps 22:10 : 10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
• 2 Sam 22:51 : 51 Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.
• 1 Kgs 8:13 : 13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.
• 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
• 2 Sam 7:5 : 5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Gen 28:21-22 : 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God, 22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.
• Exod 4:22 : 22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:
• Exod 14:13 : 13 But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
• Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord;