15:13 By your loyal love you will lead 1 the people whom 2 you have redeemed;
you will guide 3 them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.
15:16 Fear and dread 4 will fall 5 on them;
by the greatness 6 of your arm they will be as still as stone 7
until 8 your people pass by, O Lord,
until the people whom you have bought 9 pass by.
1 tn The verbs in the next two verses are perfect tenses, but can be interpreted as a prophetic perfect, looking to the future.
2 tn The particle זוּ (zu) is a relative pronoun, subordinating the next verb to the preceding.
3 tn This verb seems to mean “to guide to a watering-place” (See Ps 23:2).
4 tn The two words can form a nominal hendiadys, “a dreadful fear,” though most English versions retain the two separate terms.
5 tn The form is an imperfect.
6 tn The adjective is in construct form and governs the noun “arm” (“arm” being the anthropomorphic expression for what God did). See GKC 428 §132.c.
7 sn For a study of the words for fear, see N. Waldman, “A Comparative Note on Exodus 15:14-16,” JQR 66 (1976): 189-92.
8 tn Clauses beginning with עַד (’ad) express a limit that is not absolute, but only relative, beyond which the action continues (GKC 446-47 §138.g).
9 tn The verb קָנָה (qanah) here is the verb “acquire, purchase,” and probably not the homonym “to create, make” (see Gen 4:1; Deut 32:6; and Prov 8:22).