You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
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 right hand signifies His exerted power; the earth swallowed them means Pharaoh and his host, for though drowned in the sea, that is part of the terraqueous globe, and mud at the bottom swallowed many whole. Those cast on the banks, stripped by Israel, were afterward engulfed in sand.
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An earthquake likely accompanied this deliverance, opening chasms in the sea bed that swallowed multitudes whole, while waters overwhelmed countless others whose corpses the tide cast ashore. The psalmist confirms it: the earth trembled and shook.
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