Moses answered, "Don't be afraid! Stand your ground, and you will see what the LORD will do to save you today; you will never see these Egyptians again.

The LORD will fight for you, and all you have to do is keep still."

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, because he has won a glorious victory; he has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.

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.

O God, when you led your people, when you marched across the desert,

Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.

God will surely break the heads of his enemies, of those who persist in their sinful ways.

so that you may wade in their blood, and your dogs may lap up as much as they want."

You led your people like a shepherd, with Moses and Aaron in charge.

In a vision long ago you said to your faithful servants, "I have given help to a famous soldier; I have given the throne to one I chose from the people.

My strength will always be with him, my power will make him strong.

Moses and Aaron were his priests, and Samuel was one who prayed to him; they called to the LORD, and he answered them.

"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

But then they remembered the past, the days of Moses, the servant of the LORD, and they asked, "Where now is the LORD, who saved the leaders of his people from the sea? Where is the LORD, who gave his spirit to Moses?

At midnight the LORD killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.

That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son.

While the Amorites were running down the pass from the Israelite army, the LORD made large hailstones fall down on them all the way to Azekah. More were killed by the hailstones than by the Israelites.

and taken to Joshua. Joshua then called all the men of Israel to him and ordered the officers who had gone with him to come and put their feet on the necks of the kings. They did so.

Joshua conquered all these kings and their territory in one campaign because the LORD, Israel's God, was fighting for Israel.

The LORD gave the Israelites victory over them; the Israelites attacked and pursued them as far north as Misrephoth Maim and Sidon, and as far east as the valley of Mizpah. The fight continued until none of the enemy was left alive.

Joshua captured all these cities and their kings, putting everyone to death, just as Moses, the LORD's servant, had commanded.

I pursue my enemies and catch them; I do not stop until I destroy them.

You give me strength for the battle and victory over my enemies.

They cry for help, but no one saves them; they call to the LORD, but he does not answer.

You saved me from a rebellious people and made me ruler over the nations; people I did not know have now become my subjects.

They lose their courage and come trembling from their fortresses.

God will surely break the heads of his enemies, of those who persist in their sinful ways.

With your mighty strength you divided the sea and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;

you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.

He will pass judgment on the nations and fill the battlefield with corpses; he will defeat kings all over the earth.