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WHEN Moses had said this, he led them to the sea, while the Egyptians
looked on; for they were within sight. Now these were so distressed by
the toil of their pursuit, that they thought proper to put off fighting
till the next day. But when Moses was come to the sea-shore, he took his
rod, and made supplication to God, and called upon him to be their helper
and assistant; and said "Thou art not ignorant, O Lord, that it is
beyond human strength and human contrivance to avoid the difficulties we
are now under; but it must be thy work altogether to procure deliverance
to this army, which has left Egypt at thy appointment. We despair of any
other assistance or contrivance, and have recourse only to that hope we
have in thee; and if there be any method that can promise us an escape
by thy providence, we look up to thee for it. And let it come quickly,
and manifest thy power to us; and do thou raise up this people unto good
courage and hope of deliverance, who are deeply sunk into a disconsolate
state of mind. We are in a helpless place, but still it is a place that
thou possessest; still the sea is thine, the mountains also that enclose
us are thine; so that these mountains will open themselves if thou commandest
them, and the sea also, if thou commandest it, will become dry land. Nay,
we might escape by a flight through the air, if thou shouldst determine
we should have that way of salvation."
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