Exodus 15:5

What does Exodus 15:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 15:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.

Context

v.4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

v.5This passage

v.6Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 14:28

    And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.

  • Jeremiah 51:63

    And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

  • Ezekiel 27:34

    In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

  • Exodus 15:10

    Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

  • Matthew 18:6

    but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

  • Revelation 18:21

    And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

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