Four hundred years answering to somebody else’s name. Then one night they walk out, and by morning there is an army on the road behind them and a sea in front. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Moses lifts his hand over the water and a wind blows all night. By dawn there is a path through the sea with water standing up on either side, and a whole people walk across it. Children on shoulders, fish in the walls, the moon coming through. Not one of them gets wet.
The army follows. The wheels come off. The water comes down. Same sea, two mornings.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
The World English Bible. A modern English translation made from the Hebrew and Greek, in plain language, and in the public domain.
Four hundred years
Somebody else's name
Gates behind us
Sea in front of us
Walk on
Walk on
Walk on
Walk on
Chariots (we heard them!)
Coming up the road
Feel it (in the ground!)
Before you ever see it
Nowhere left to run (nowhere!)
Nowhere left to hide (nowhere!)
Lift it up (higher!)
Hold it over the sea (all night!)
And the wind came down till the morning
Dry ground!
Walk on through and don't look behind
Dry ground!
Water standing on either side
He made a way, He made a way
He made a way where there wasn't a way
Children (on our shoulders!)
Walking on the floor of the sea
Fish in the wall (look up!)
Moon coming through (look up!)
Not one of us got wet
Not one of us got wet
Morning came (morning came!)
Wheels came off (they came off!)
And the water that was standing came down
Dry ground!
Walk on through and don't look behind
Dry ground!
Water standing on either side
He made a way, He made a way
He made a way where there wasn't a way
Who brought us out
Not by our own hand
Who brought us out
Not by our own hand
Sing on the other side
Everybody sing
Same sea, two mornings
One for the free and one for the proud
We were standing in water over our heads
And we came up on dry ground
Dry ground... dry ground...
Dry ground... dry ground...
Dry ground!
Walk on through and don't look behind
Dry ground!
Water standing on either side
(Sing it, Miriam! Tambourine in the sand!)
He made a way
Where there wasn't a way
Dry ground