Moses and his people, saying:
“Where is He who bbrought them up out of the sea
With the1 shepherd of His flock?
cWhere is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,
aWith His glorious arm,
bDividing the water before them
To make for Himself an everlasting name,
And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,
So You lead Your people,
aTo make Yourself a glorious name.
A Prayer of Penitence
And see bfrom Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning cof Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
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Isaiah 63:13
That led them through the deep - They went through the deep on dry land - the waters having divided and left an unobstructed path.
As an horse in the wilderness - As an horse, or a courser, goes through a desert without stumbling. This is a most beautiful image. The reference is to vast level plains like those in Arabia, where there are no stones, no trees, no gullies, no obstacles, and where a fleet courser bounds over the plain without any danger of stumbling. So the Israelites were led on their way without falling. All obstacles were removed, and they were led along as if over a vast smooth plain. Our word ' wilderness,' by no means expresses the idea here. We apply it to uncultivated regions that are covered with trees, and where there would be numerous obstacles to such a race-horse. But the Hebrew word ( midbâr ) rather refers to "a desert, a waste" - a place of level sands or plains where there was nothing to obstruct the fleet courser that should prance over them. Such is probably the meaning of this passage, but Harmer (Obs. i. 161ff) may be consulted for another view, which may possibly be the correct one.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 63:13:
Numbers 20:1
Isaiah 1:2
Isaiah 1:12
Nahum 2:5
Habakkuk 3:15
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