Exodus 15:5 “The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.”

Exodus 15:5

The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“depths”

Exodus 14:28 Ezekiel 27:34 Jonah 2:2 Micah 7:19 Matthew 18:6

Exodus 14:28 · BSB

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Ezekiel 27:34 · BSB

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Jonah 2:2 · BSB

saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

Micah 7:19 · BSB

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:6 · BSB

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

“they”

Nehemiah 9:11 Revelation 18:21 Jeremiah 51:63 Jeremiah 51:64

Nehemiah 9:11 · BSB

You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

Revelation 18:21 · BSB

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

Jeremiah 51:63 · BSB

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51:64 · BSB

Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

Also

Exodus 15:10

Exodus 15:10 · BSB

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.

Read Exodus 15