Keluaran 15

Bagian: Nyanyian kemenangan

1 Kemudian Musa dan umat Israel menyanyikan lagu ini untuk memuji TUHAN,
“Aku akan bernyanyi bagi TUHAN
sebab Dia sudah menang dengan jaya.
Dia sudah melemparkan kuda
dan penunggangnya ke dalam laut. 2 TUHAN adalah sumber kekuatanku,
karena itu aku bernyanyi.
Dialah yang menyelamatkan aku.
Dialah Allah yang akan aku puji.
Dialah Allah yang disembah ayahku dan nenek moyangku.
Aku akan meninggikan Dia! 3 TUHAN adalah pahlawan perang.
Nama-Nya adalah TUHAN. 4 Dia sudah melemparkan kereta-kereta raja Mesir
dan segenap pasukannya ke dalam laut.
Perwira-perwira terbaik
ditenggelamkan-Nya ke Laut Merah. 5 Laut yang dalam menelan mereka.
Seperti batu mereka tenggelam ke dasar laut. 6 Tangan kanan-Mu, ya TUHAN, hebat penuh kuasa.
Tangan kanan-Mu, ya TUHAN, menghancurkan semua musuh. 7 Ketika Engkau membinasakan musuh-musuh-Mu
Engkau mendapat kehormatan besar.
Engkau melepaskan api murka-Mu
dan membakar mereka bagai rumput kering belaka. 8 Oleh hembusan nafas-Mu,
air laut menggulung tinggi,
berdiri tegak seperti tembok,
dan dasar laut menjadi kering. 9 Musuh kami berkata, ‘Aku akan mengejar
dan menangkap mereka.
Aku akan membunuh mereka dengan pedang.
Lalu aku merampas semua harta mereka,
membagi-bagikannya, dan menikmatinya sampai puas.’ 10 Tetapi dengan hembusan nafas-Mu,
laut menggulung mereka.
Mereka tenggelam bagaikan sepotong besi
di dalam gelora air yang dahsyat. 11 Tidak ada penguasa seperti Engkau, ya TUHAN!
Engkau hebat dalam kekudusan-Mu,
dikagumi dan dipuji karena perbuatan-Mu yang menakjubkan.
Engkau pembuat keajaiban. 12 Engkau merentangkan tangan kanan-Mu,
dan bumi pun menelan mereka. 13 Karena Engkau setia dan berbaik hati,
Engkau memimpin orang-orang yang sudah Engkau tebus.
Dengan kekuatan-Mu, Engkau menuntun mereka
menuju tempat kediaman-Mu yang kudus. 14 Bangsa-bangsa lain akan mendengar perbuatan-Mu, dan mereka akan gemetar.
Penduduk Filistin akan dilanda ketakutan. 15 Para pemimpin Edom akan terguncang.
Para pemimpin Moab akan gemetar.
Orang Kanaan akan lemas karena kegentaran. 16 Mereka akan merasa ngeri dan ketakutan menyaksikan kuasa-Mu,
dan mereka akan terdiam seperti batu
sampai umat-Mu yang sudah Engkau tebus, ya TUHAN,
berjalan melewati mereka. 17 Engkau akan membawa umat-Mu ke atas gunung-Mu,
di mana Engkau membuat kediaman-Mu, ya TUHAN,
ke tempat kudus yang Engkau dirikan dengan tangan-Mu sendiri, ya Penguasa kami. 18 Engkaulah, TUHAN, yang berkuasa dan memerintah
sampai selama-lamanya!” 19 Ketika umat Israel berjalan menyeberang laut di atas tanah yang kering, semua pasukan raja Mesir, termasuk pasukan berkuda, kereta, dan pengendaranya, mengejar mereka ke tengah laut. Lalu TUHAN membuat tembok air menyatu kembali seperti semula dan menenggelamkan mereka. 20 Lalu Miryam, kakak perempuan Harun yang juga seorang nabi perempuan, mengambil rebana dan memukulnya sambil menari-nari. Semua perempuan mengikutinya, 21 dan Miryam memimpin mereka menyanyi,
“Bernyanyilah bagi TUHAN, karena Dia sudah menang dengan jaya.
Dia sudah melemparkan seluruh pasukan berkuda itu ke dalam laut.”

Bagian: TUHAN mengubah air pahit menjadi air yang bisa diminum

22 Kemudian Musa memimpin umat Israel meninggalkan Laut Merah menuju padang belantara Syur. Mereka berjalan selama tiga hari di padang belantara itu tanpa menemukan air. 23 Setibanya di Mara, mereka menemukan air, tetapi air di sana tidak bisa diminum karena pahit. Itulah sebabnya tempat itu dinamai ‘Mara’, yang artinya ‘pahit’. 24 Mereka bersungut-sungut kepada Musa dan berkata, “Apa yang akan kita minum?!” 25 Maka Musa berseru kepada TUHAN, dan TUHAN menunjukkan kepadanya sebatang kayu. Musa melemparkan kayu itu ke air, lalu air itu berubah menjadi air tawar sehingga dapat diminum.
Di tempat itu, TUHAN memberikan ketetapan sebagai pengukur untuk menguji ketaatan mereka masing-masing dengan berkata, 26 “Taatilah Aku, TUHAN Allahmu, dengan sungguh-sungguh. Turutilah semua perintah dan ketetapan-Ku, dan lakukanlah yang baik di mata-Ku, maka Aku tidak akan menghukum kamu dengan berbagai penyakit seperti yang sudah Aku lakukan terhadap bangsa Mesir. Akulah TUHAN yang menyembuhkan kamu.” 27 Sesudah itu, tibalah mereka di Elim. Di sana terdapat dua belas mata air dan tujuh puluh pohon kurma. Mereka berkemah di dekat mata air itu.

1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
“I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea. 2 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. 4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’ 10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. 14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over. 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.” 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. 21 Miriam answered them,
“Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.” 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them. 26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.” 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.