Song by the Red Sea

Excerpt from the Hebrew Exodus (2nd book of Moses)

The song by the Red Sea (Hebrew Schirat Hajam , Hebrew שִירַת הַיָּם, Eng. "Song of the Sea"), also known as "As Jaschir Mosche [...]" ( Hebrew אָז יָשִׁיר מֹשֶׁה; dt. " Back then Moses sang  [...]") is a poem from Ex 15.1-18  ELB , which u. a. in Judaism in the daily morning prayer ( Shacharit ) is prayed.

description

The song describes the events of the exodus from Egypt : the crossing of the Red Sea, the destruction of the Egyptian army and the future conquest of Canaan . The poem also forms the first ode of the Greek Orthodox hymn canon (see Book of Odes ), known as the Song of Moses or Ode of Moses . It is also used in the Roman Catholic liturgy . (Another "Song of Moses", the second in the Book of Odes, is Deut. 32 : 1-43  EU ).

There are also musical interpretations in the Catholic tradition:

• Cantique de Moïse (French) by Étienne Moulinié .
• Canticum Moysis (Latin) by Fernando de las Infantas (1534 - ca.1610)
• Cantemus Domino by Ascanio Trombetti (November 27, 1544 - September 20/21, 1590)

text

At that time Moshe and the sons of Israel sang this song to God; They said:
God I would like to sing how high He was,
horse and Reuter he hurled into the sea!
My victory and song is God,
That was my salvation;
From now on he is my God, I want to be his place.
He was already my father's God, I want to exalt him.
God is a warrior, his name is
God! He hurled
Pharaoh's chariot and his army
into the sea,
And the choicest of his superiors
were lowered into the Red Sea! They are
now covered by floods,
they have descended like a stone into shadowy grounds.
Your rights, God, who have shown
themselves to be one and only in this power,
your rights, God,
from now on frightened every enemy.
In Your Highness
Abundance you shatter those who stand up against you;
if you did not
hold back your anger, it consumed them like straw!
And by the wind of your desire
water had piled up,
Were flowing but stood back shyly like a wall,
Were floods congealed in the heart of the sea!
And the enemy therefore said,
I will pursue, reach, and distribute the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied with them;
I draw my sword,
my hand takes her back!
You blew with your wind,
The sea covered them;
Shady deep they sank
like lead in the mighty billowing water.
Who is like you
among the gods, God,
who like you is one in holiness!
Feared in songs of deeds, miracles = accomplices!
You stretched your rights -
the earth is devouring them.
But you
had led this people, whom you redeemed, to their goal with your love , You had led them to your holy place
with an irresistible power
.
Volker
had already heard and tremble. Circular fear had already seized
Plescheth 's residents,
but now Edom's generals were dismayed,
Moab's mighty men trembled
, all residents of Kenaan were dissolved .
Terror and fear fall over them -
When your arm shows itself large,
they fall silent like stone,
Until it is over, God, your people,
Over this people,
which you buy!
You bring them home, you plant them
In the mountains of your inheritance,
The place ready for your stay, Which
God, you achieve,
The sanctuary, God,
Which your hands founded.
God will reign for all eternity!
God will reign for all eternity!
For Pharaoh's horse with his chariots and his reeds came into the sea, and God brought back the water of the sea over them, and the sons of Jisrael would walk dry in the middle of the sea!
For God becomes rulership and rules among the peoples. They go up to mount Zion as savior, he will judge mount Esaw, and God will rule. God will then be King over the whole earth, on that day God will be unique and his name will be unique.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Siddur schma kolenu. German transl. Raw Joseph Scheuer, arr. Albert Richter / Edouard Selig, ed. Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich, Verlag Morascha, Basel 1996 / 9th edition 2011, p. 326.
2. ↑ Siddûr tefillôt Yiśrāʾēl / Israel's prayers , trans. u. ext. by Samson Raphael Hirsch . 3. Edition. Kauffmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, pp. 96-101.