12. You stretched out your right hand;the earth swallowed them.
13. “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
14. The peoples have heard; they tremble;pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
15. Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16. Terror and dread fall upon them;because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,till your people, O Lord, pass by,till the people pass by whom you have purchased.
17. You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
18. The Lord will reign forever and ever.”
19. For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
20. Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
21. And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
22. Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.