¹⁴For while gentle silence enveloped all things,
and night in its swift course was now half gone,
¹⁵your all-powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne,
into the midst of the land that was doomed,
a stern warrior
¹⁶carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command,
and stood and filled all things with death,
and touched heaven while standing on the earth.

God Guides and Protects His People

⁶For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew,
complying with your commands,
so that your children^* might be kept unharmed.
⁷The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp,
and dry land emerging where water had stood before,
an unhindered way out of the Red Sea,
and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
⁸where those protected by your hand passed through as one nation,
after gazing on marvellous wonders.
⁹For they ranged like horses,
and leapt like lambs,
praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.