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He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall. Psalm 78:13 · Berean Standard Bible
God split the Red Sea and led the people through on dry ground, with the water standing up like a wall on both sides. This wasn't nature doing its thing—this was God's direct intervention.
You're in the moment of ultimate deliverance. Slaves who had no hope, no power, no way out—God opened a door through the impossible and brought them through to freedom.
Asaph, recounting the most pivotal moment in Israel's history.
The parting of the Red Sea is the event that defines God's character to His people: He saves the helpless, He defeats impossible enemies, He is faithful to His covenant.
God split the sea and led the people through safely, causing the waters to stand upright like a wall on either side.
This is the Red Sea crossing, perhaps the single most theologically laden event in Israel's national memory. The verb בָּקַע (*baqa*, to split or cleave) conveys violent, miraculous action—this is not natural event but divine intervention. The waters standing as walls (חוֹמָה, *ḥoma*) suggests vertical solidity, an impossible suspension of natural law.
The narrator rendering the Exodus deliverance in concrete, visually vivid language.
The sea-crossing represents the boundary-moment when God constitutes Israel as a people, separating them from Egypt through miraculous act. This is the canonical example of salvation-history.
11They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
12He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
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