Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.

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New International Version
“The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

New Living Translation
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him— my father’s God, and I will exalt him!

English Standard Version
The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

King James Bible
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

New King James Version
The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

New American Standard Bible
“The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

NASB 1995
“The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

NASB 1977
“The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

Amplified Bible
“The LORD is my strength and my song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

American Standard Version
Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is my strength, the reason for my song, because he has saved me. I praise and honor the LORD--he is my God and the God of my ancestors.

English Revised Version
The LORD is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD is my strength and my song. He is my Savior. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will honor him.

Good News Translation
The LORD is my strong defender; he is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness.

International Standard Version
The LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God and I'll praise him, the God of my father and I'll exalt him.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father?s God, and I will exalt Him.

NET Bible
The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

World English Bible
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.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
My strength and song is YAH, "" And He is become my salvation: This [is] my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.

Young's Literal Translation
My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.

Smith's Literal Translation
Jehovah my strength and song, and he shall be to me for salvation: this my God, and I will cause him to rest; the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I shall glorify him. He is the God of my father, and I shall exalt him.

New American Bible
My strength and my refuge is the LORD, and he has become my savior. This is my God, I praise him; the God of my father, I extol him.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
He is mighty and glorious, The LORD JEHOVAH has become our Saviour; he is our God, and we will praise him; our father's God, and we will exalt him.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The Mighty One and the Glorious YAH, LORD JEHOVAH, and he is to us the Savior; this is my God, I shall glorify him, the God of my fathers, I shall exalt him.

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD is my strength and song, And He is become my salvation; This is my God, and I will glorify Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God and I will glorify him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Additional Translations ...

Audio Bible

Context

Moses' Song of Deliverance
1Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea. 2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. 3The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name.…

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Cross References

Psalm 118:14
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

Psalm 27:1
Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

Psalm 28:7
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

Psalm 46:1
For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

Psalm 118:21
I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.

Isaiah 25:1
O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.

Isaiah 61:10
I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

2 Samuel 22:47
The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

Psalm 18:1-2
For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength. / The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 59:17
To You, O my strength, I sing praises, for You, O God, are my fortress, my God of loving devotion.

Psalm 62:7
My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

Psalm 118:28
You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

Isaiah 45:24
Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

Treasury of Scripture

The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

strength

Psalm 18:1,2
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength…

Psalm 27:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 28:8
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

my salvation

Exodus 14:13
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

2 Samuel 22:51
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

Psalm 68:20
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

my God

Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Psalm 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

an habitation

Exodus 40:34
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Genesis 28:21,22
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: …

2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

my father's God

Exodus 3:15,16
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations…

exalt him

2 Samuel 22:47
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

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Exodus 15

1. The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance
22. The people want water in the desert
23. The waters at Marah are bitter,
24. they murmur,
25. Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction
27. They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees

Berean Study Bible

The LORD
The Hebrew word used here is "Yahweh," the personal name of God revealed to Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14). This name signifies God's eternal existence and His covenant relationship with Israel. In the context of Exodus 15, the use of "Yahweh" emphasizes God's direct intervention and personal involvement in the deliverance of His people from Egypt. Historically, this name would have been a source of comfort and assurance to the Israelites, reminding them of God's promises and His faithfulness.

is my strength
The Hebrew word for "strength" is "oz," which conveys the idea of might, power, and refuge. This phrase acknowledges that the source of the Israelites' strength is not in themselves but in God. It reflects a deep reliance on God's power to save and sustain. In the broader biblical narrative, this theme of God as the source of strength is echoed in many other passages, such as Psalm 28:7 and Isaiah 12:2, reinforcing the idea that true strength comes from a relationship with God.

and my song
The word "song" in Hebrew is "zimrath," which can also mean "praise." This indicates that the response to God's deliverance is not only physical strength but also worship and adoration. The Israelites' experience of salvation naturally leads to a response of praise. This concept is foundational in Scripture, where God's acts of salvation are often followed by songs of praise, as seen in the Psalms and the New Testament hymns.

and He has become my salvation
The Hebrew word for "salvation" is "yeshuah," which is closely related to the name "Yeshua" (Jesus in Greek). This connection is significant in Christian theology, as it foreshadows the ultimate salvation brought through Jesus Christ. In the historical context of Exodus, this phrase celebrates God's deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt, a physical salvation that points to the spiritual salvation available through Christ.

This is my God
The declaration "This is my God" is a personal affirmation of faith and recognition of God's identity and role in the believer's life. It reflects a personal relationship with God, not just a communal or national one. This personal acknowledgment is crucial in the life of faith, as it moves beyond mere acknowledgment of God's existence to a personal commitment and trust in Him.

and I will praise Him
The Hebrew word for "praise" here is "naveh," which can also mean "to beautify" or "to adorn." This suggests that praising God is not only about verbal acknowledgment but also about living a life that reflects His glory and beauty. In the biblical context, praise is both an act of worship and a lifestyle that honors God.

my father's God
This phrase connects the present generation of Israelites with their ancestors, emphasizing the continuity of God's covenant and faithfulness through the generations. It acknowledges that the God who delivered them is the same God who made promises to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This historical continuity is a source of assurance and identity for the Israelites.

and I will exalt Him
The word "exalt" in Hebrew is "ruwm," which means to lift up or raise high. This is an expression of giving God the highest place of honor and reverence. In the context of worship, exalting God involves both personal devotion and communal celebration, recognizing His supreme authority and majesty. This act of exaltation is a fitting response to God's mighty acts of deliverance and His ongoing presence in the lives of His people.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(2) The Lord is my strength and song.--Heb., My strength and song is Jah. The contracted form of Jehovah, Jah, is here used for the first time; but its existence in the current speech has already been indicated by the name Moriah, which occurs in Genesis 22:1. It is here used on account of the rhythm.

He is become my salvation.--Heb,, he has been to me for salvation: i.e., "he has saved me out of the hand of Pharaoh." The beauty and force of the passage causes Isaiah to adopt it into one of his most glorious poems, the "joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God," contained in his twelfth chapter. (See Exodus 15:2.)

I will prepare him an habitation.--So Onkelos and Aben-Ezra; but Jarchi, the Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan, the LXX., and Vulg., with most moderns, translate, "I will glorify him." It is a strong objection to the rendering of the Authorised Version that Moses is not likely to have had the idea of preparing God a habitation until the revelation of God's will on the subject was made to him on Sinai (Exodus 25-27). The law of parallelism also requires such a meaning as "glorify" to correspond with the "exalt" of the next clause.

My father's God.--"Father" here, by a common Hebrew idiom, stands for "forefathers" generally. (Comp. Note on Exodus 3:6.)

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - The Lord is my strength and song. Literally, "My strength and song is Jah." The name Jah had not previously been used. It is commonly regarded as an abbreviated form of Jehovah, and was the form generally used in the termination of names, as Abijah, Ahaziah, Hezekiah, Zedekiah, Mount Moriah, etc. It takes the place of "Jehovah" here, probably on account of the rhythm. He is become my salvation. Literally, "He has been to me for salvation," i.e., "He has delivered me out of the hand of Pharaoh and his host, and so saved me from destruction." I will prepare him a habitation. This translation seems to have come originally from the Targum of Onkelos, who paraphrases the single word of the text by the phrase "I will build him a sanctuary." The meaning is a possible one: but most modern commentators prefer to connect the verb used with a root meaning "beautiful," and translate "I will glorify him." (So Gesenius. Rosenmuller, Knobel, Kalisch, Cook. The LXX have δοξάσω. The Vulgate has glorificabo. The Syrian and Coptic versions agree, as do also the Targums of Jonathan and of Jerusalem.) The God of my father. See the comment on Exodus 3:6.

Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

The LORD
יָ֔הּ (yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3050: LORD -- the name of the God of Israel

is my strength
עָזִּ֤י (‘āz·zî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5797: Strength, might

and my song,
וְזִמְרָת֙ (wə·zim·rāṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2176: Instrumental music, praise

and He has become
וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

my salvation.
לִֽישׁוּעָ֑ה (lî·šū·‘āh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity

He [is]
זֶ֤ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

my God,
אֵלִי֙ (’ê·lî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

and I will praise Him,
וְאַנְוֵ֔הוּ (wə·’an·wê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5115: To rest, to celebrate

my father’s
אָבִ֖י (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

God,
אֱלֹהֵ֥י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and I will exalt Him.
וַאֲרֹמְמֶֽנְהוּ׃ (wa·’ă·rō·mə·men·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

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