and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
Moses is not wishing here but declaring God's firm purpose: He will not abandon His people until they reach their goal, because He has purchased them and made them His own. What He began in grace He will complete; the same God who redeemed them at the Red Sea will see them safe to His holy mountain.
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Those who held their peace while deliverance was working must not hold it when the work is done. Singing psalms is the language of holy joy as prayer is of holy desire. Strike while the mercy is fresh; when the heart is most affected, praise returns quickest to God, before time and our own deceitfulness dull the impression.
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Commenting on Exodus 15:1-21
The nations shall stand paralyzed like stones, stripped of all courage and power to resist, because God's arm has been made visible in Israel's deliverance. Christ purchased His people by His blood and ransom; they too must pass through the cold stream of death, but as surely as Israel crossed Jordan, the redeemed shall reach their Canaan of eternal rest.
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