Exodus 10:13
Hebrew Text— Exodus 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
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He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”
In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,
You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.” ’ ”
But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’ ”
Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number,
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.