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Exodus 15:7

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 15:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou hast overthrown, etc. Here again the verbs are future. Translate—"thou wilt overthrow," or "thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee; thou (wilt send) sendest forth thy wrath, which consumes them as stubble."

The metaphor in the last clause was one known to the Egyptians.

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