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They weren’t impressed by the wonder of your miracles in Egypt and soon forgot your many acts of kindness to them. Instead they rebelled against you at the Red Sea. Even so you saved them—to defend the honor of your name and demonstrate your power to all the world. You commanded the Red Sea to divide, forming a dry road across its bottom. Yes, as dry as any desert!

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When our ancestors were in Egypt,
    they gave no thought(A) to your miracles;
they did not remember(B) your many kindnesses,
    and they rebelled by the sea,(C) the Red Sea.[a]
Yet he saved them(D) for his name’s sake,(E)
    to make his mighty power(F) known.
He rebuked(G) the Red Sea, and it dried up;(H)
    he led them through(I) the depths as through a desert.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 106:7 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verses 9 and 22