Exodus 15:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song vnto the Lord, and sayd in this maner, I will sing vnto the Lorde: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and him that rode vpon him hath he ouerthrowen in the Sea.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֣ז יָשִֽׁיר־מֹשֶׁה֩ וּבְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אָשִׁ֤ירָה לֽ͏ַיהוָה֙ כִּֽי־גָאֹ֣ה גָּאָ֔ה ס֥וּס וְרֹכְב֖וֹ רָמָ֥ה בַיָּֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾāz yāšîr-Mōšeh ūḇənê Yiśrāʾēl ʾet-haššîrāh hazzōʾt la-YHWH wayyōʾmərū lēʾmōr ʾāšîrāh la-YHWH kî-ḡāʾōh gāʾāh sūs wərōḵəbô rāmāh bayyām

Grammar Details

• *ʾāz*: adverb - then, at that time
• *yāšîr*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will sing
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *ūḇənê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and the sons of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *haššîrāh*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the song
• *hazzōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *la-YHWH*: preposition + divine name - to/for YHWH
• *wayyōʾmərū*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they said
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
• *ʾāšîrāh*: qal imperfect 1st singular cohortative - I will sing
• *kî*: conjunction - for, because
• *ḡāʾōh*: infinitive absolute - exalting
• *gāʾāh*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has exalted
• *sūs*: noun, masculine singular - horse
• *wərōḵəbô*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and its rider
• *rāmāh*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has thrown
• *bayyām*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - into the sea

Word Meanings

• *yāšîr*: sang/will sing/began to sing
• *ʾāšîrāh*: I will sing/let me sing
• *ḡāʾōh gāʾāh*: he is highly exalted/he has triumphed gloriously/surpassingly proud
• *rāmāh*: hurled/threw/cast

Referenced Verses

• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sung the song of Moses the seruant of God, & the song of the Lambe, saying, Great and marueilous are thy workes, Lord God almightie: iust and true are thy wayes, King of Saints.
• Ps 106:12 : 12 Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.
• Exod 15:21 : 21 And Miriam answered the men, Sing yee vnto the Lord: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath hee ouerthrowen in the Sea.
• Isa 51:10-11 : 10 Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with ioy vnto Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine ioy, and gladnesse: and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
• Col 2:15 : 15 And hath spoyled the Principalities, and Powers, & hath made a shew of them openly, and hath triumphed ouer them in the same crosse.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that the Lord is greater then all the gods: for as they haue dealt proudly with them, so are they recompensed.
• Judg 5:1-9 : 1 Then sang Deborah, and Barak the sonne of Abinoam the same day, saying, 2 Praise ye the Lord for the auenging of Israel, and for the people that offred themselues willingly. 3 Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel. 4 Lorde, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rained, the cloudes also dropped water. 5 The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel. 6 In the dayes of Shamgar the sonne of Anath, in the dayes of Iael the hie wayes were vnoccupied, and the trauelers walked through by wayes. 7 The townes were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, vntill I Deborah came vp, which rose vp a mother in Israel. 8 They chose new gods: then was warre in the gates. Was there a shielde or speare seene among fourtie thousand of Israel? 9 Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord. 10 Speake ye that ride on white asses, yee that dwel by Middin, & that walke by the way. 11 For the noyse of the archers appaised among the drawers of water: there shal they rehearse the righteousnesse of the Lorde, his righteousnesse of his townes in Israel: then did the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates. 12 Vp Deborah, vp, arise, and sing a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam. 13 For they that remaine, haue dominio ouer the mightie of the people: the Lorde hath giuen me dominion ouer the strong. 14 Of Ephraim their roote arose against Amalek: & after thee, Beniamin shall fight against thy people, O Amalek: of Machir came rulers, & of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. 15 And the Princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar, and also Barak: he was set on his feete in the valley: for the diuisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flockes? for the diuisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart. 17 Gilead abode beyonde Iorden: and why doeth Dan remayne in shippes? Asher sate on the sea shoare, and taryed in his decayed places. 18 But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali haue ieopard their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field. 19 The Kings came and fought: then fought the Kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they receiued no gaine of money. 20 They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera. 21 The Riuer Kishon swepe them away, that ancient riuer the riuer Kishon. O my soule, thou hast marched valiantly. 22 Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men. 23 Curse ye Meroz: (sayd the Angel of the Lorde) curse the inhabitantes thereof, because they came not to helpe the Lorde, to helpe the Lord against the mighty. 24 Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed aboue other women: blessed shall she be aboue women dwelling in tentes. 25 He asked water, and shee gaue him milke: she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the naile, & her right hand to the workemans hammer: with the hammer smote she Sisera: she smote off his head, after she had wounded, and pearsed his temples. 27 He bowed him downe at her feete, he fell downe, and lay still: at her feete hee bowed him downe, and fell: and when he had sunke downe, he lay there dead. 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a windowe, and cryed thorowe the lattesse, Why is his charet so long a comming? why tary the wheeles of his charets? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yea. Shee answered her selfe with her owne wordes, 30 Haue they not gotten, and they deuide the spoyle? euery man hath a mayde or two. Sisera hath a praye of diuers coloured garmentes, a pray of sundry colours made of needle worke: of diuers colours of needle worke on both sides, for the chiefe of the spoyle. 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lorde: but they that loue him, shall be as the Sunne when he riseth in his might, and the lande had rest fourtie yeres.
• 2 Sam 22:1-9 : 1 And Dauid spake the woordes of this song vnto the Lorde, what time the Lord had deliuered him out of the handes of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul. 2 And he sayd, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth mee. 3 God is my strength, in him will I trust: my shielde, and the horne of my saluation, my hie tower and my refuge: my Sauiour, thou hast saued me from violence. 4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies. 5 For the pangs of death haue compassed me: the floods of vngodlinesse haue made mee afrayd. 6 The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee. 7 But in my tribulation did I call vpon the Lord, and crie to my God, and he did heare my voyce out of his temple, and my crie did enter into his eares. 8 Then the earth trembled and quaked: the foundations of the heauens mooued and shooke, because he was angrie. 9 Smoke went out at his nostrels, and consuming fire out of his mouth: coles were kindled thereat. 10 He bowed the heauens also, and came downe, and darkenes was vnder his feete. 11 And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, & hee was seene vpon the winges of the winde. 12 And hee made darkenesse a Tabernacle round about him, euen the gatherings of waters, and the cloudes of the ayre. 13 At the brightnesse of his presence the coles of fire were kindled. 14 The Lord thundred from heauen, and the most hie gaue his voyce. 15 He shot arrowes also, and scattered them: to wit, lightning, and destroyed them. 16 The chanels also of the sea appeared, euen the foundations of the worlde were discouered by the rebuking of the Lorde, and at the blast of the breath of his nostrels. 17 He sent from aboue, and tooke me: hee drewe me out of many waters. 18 He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They preuented me in the day of my calamitie, but the Lord was my stay, 20 And brought me foorth into a large place: he deliuered me, because he fauoured me. 21 The Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse: according to the purenesse of mine handes he recompensed me. 22 For I kept the wayes of the Lorde, and did not wickedly against my God. 23 For all his lawes were before me, and his statutes: I did not depart therefrom. 24 I was vpright also towarde him, and haue kept me from my wickednesse. 25 Therefore the Lord did reward me according to my righteousnesse, according to my purenesse before his eyes. 26 With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright. 27 With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the frowarde thou wilt shew thy selfe frowarde. 28 Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them. 29 Surely thou art my light, O Lorde: and the Lorde will lighten my darkenes. 30 For by thee haue I broken through an hoste, and by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall. 31 The way of God is vncorrupt: the word of the Lorde is tryed in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him. 32 For who is God besides the Lorde? and who is mightie, saue our God? 33 God is my strength in battel, and maketh my way vpright. 34 He maketh my feete like hindes feete, & hath set me vpon mine hie places. 35 He teacheth mine handes to fight, so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes. 36 Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy louing kindnesse hath caused me to increase. 37 Thou hast inlarged my steppes vnder me, and mine heeles haue not slid. 38 I haue pursued mine enemies and destroyed them, and haue not turned againe vntill I had consumed them. 39 Yea, I haue consumed them and thrust them through, and they shall not arise, but shall fall vnder my feete. 40 For thou hast girded me with power to battell, and them that arose against me, hast thou subdued vnder me. 41 And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 42 They looked about, but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but he answered them not. 43 Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth: I did treade them flat as the clay of the streete, and did spread them abroad. 44 Thou hast also deliuered me from the cotentions of my people: thou hast preserued me to be the head ouer nations: the people which I knewe not, doe serue me. 45 Strangers shalbe in subiection to me: assoone as they heare, they shall obey me. 46 Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers. 47 Let the Lorde liue, and blessed be my strength: and God, euen the force of my saluation be exalted. 48 It is God that giueth me power to reuenge me, and subdue the people vnder me, 49 And rescueth me from mine enemies: (thou also hast lift me vp from them that rose against me, thou hast deliuered me from the cruell man. 50 Therefore I will praise thee, O Lord amog the nations, and will sing vnto thy Name) 51 He is the tower of saluation for his King, and sheweth mercie to his anointed, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.
• Ps 107:8 : 8 Let them therefore confesse before ye Lorde his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.
• Ps 107:15 : 15 Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.
• Ps 107:21-22 : 21 Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, & his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men, 22 And let them offer sacrifices of praise, and declare his workes with reioycing.
• Isa 12:1-6 : 1 And thou shalt say in that day, O Lorde, I will prayse thee: though thou wast angrie with me, thy wrath is turned away, and thou comfortest me. 2 Beholde, God is my saluation: I will trust, and will not feare: for ye Lord God is my strength and song: he also is become my saluation. 3 Therefore with ioy shall ye drawe waters out of the welles of saluation. 4 And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted. 5 Sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the worlde. 6 Crie out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may followe them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, & vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. 18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lorde, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, & vpon his horsemen.
• Exod 14:27 : 27 Then Moses stretched forth his hand vpon the Sea, and the Sea returned to his force early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it: but the Lord ouerthrew the Egyptians in the mids of the Sea.