You stretch out your right hand, and the earth swallows your enemies. The poetic description of the earth swallowing Egypt's army returns to the right hand of verse 6 and connects the sea crossing to the creation imagery of verse 5. The same hand that divided the sea also reaches down and closes it. The earth that God made and owns responds to its maker's gesture. Deuteronomy 11:6 records another swallowing — the earth opening to swallow Dathan and Abiram — as another demonstration of the same principle. The earth that God made belongs to God, and He uses it as an instrument of judgment against those who oppose His purposes. The enemies who are swallowed by earth or sea are not victims of random catastrophe but of the creation responding to its Creator's command.

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