Bible Strands
Exodus 15:7
You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses leads Israel in a song of victory to the Lord immediately after the Red Sea crossing, addressing God directly regarding the destruction of Pharaoh’s army.
The words — The Hebrew phrase בְּרֹב גְּאוֹנְךָ (be-rov ge-on-kha) translates literally as “in the greatness of your majesty,” describing the means by which God overthrows those who rose against him.
The thread — The image of enemies consumed like stubble by divine fire reappears in Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 47:14, and Malachi 4:1 to describe the complete destruction of the arrogant and evildoers.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that human opposition is powerless against God’s sovereign wrath and requires the reader to submit to divine judgment rather than rely on human strength.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Isaiah 47:14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
- Deuteronomy 33:26 “There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- Psalms 83:13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalms 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
- Isaiah 5:16 But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
- Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- Exodus 9:16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah