New English Translation
Exodus 15:8
8By 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.
Exodus 15:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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 International Version (NIV)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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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 King James Version (NKJV)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.
Context of Exodus 15:8
6Your right hand, O Lord, was majestic in power, your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy. 7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble. 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. 9The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’ 10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים קָֽפְא֥וּ תְהֹמֹ֖ת בְּלֶב־יָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And with the blastרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
- of thy nostrilsאַף'aph · face: noseH639
- the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
- were gathered togetherעָרַם‛âram · to pile upH6192
- the floodsנָזַלnâzal · to flowH5140
- stood uprightנָצַבnâtsab · to standH5324
- as an heapנֵדnêd · heapH5067
- the depthsתְּהוֹםtehôm tehôm · abyssH8415
- were congealedקָפָאqâphâ' · to congealH7087
- in the heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
- of the seaיָםyâm · seaH3220
Cross-references for Exodus 15:8
- Exodus 14:21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
- 2 Samuel 22:16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the Lord’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.
- Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
- Isaiah 11:4He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.
- Isaiah 37:7Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.
- Exodus 14:22So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
- Psalms 78:13He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.
- Habakkuk 3:10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.
Commentaries on Exodus 15:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The depths were congealed - The strong east wind ( Exodus 14:21;) employed to dry the bottom of the sea, is here represented as the blast of God's nostrils that had congealed or frozen the waters, so that they stood in heaps like a wall on the right hand and on the left.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-18Verses 1-18 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8nostrils: In other contexts, this word may be translated as anger. The hot breath from God's nose is an image of God's anger. the blast: The Hebrew word translated as breath (ruakh) is also translated as wind in 14:21 and as Spirit in Genesis 1:2. Nature is not God, but God works everywhere in nature.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel--The scene of this thanksgiving song is supposed to have been at the landing place on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, at Ayoun Musa, "the fountains of Moses." They are situated somewhat farther northward along the shore than the opposite point from which the Israelites set out. But the line of the people would be extended during the passage, and one extremity of it would reach as far north as these…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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