Terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone — until your people pass by, Lord, until the people you bought pass by. The stillness of the nations before Israel's passage echoes the stillness of the sea before Israel's crossing. The same God who stilled the waters for Israel will still the nations. The phrase the people you bought — qanita — introduces the redemption-as-purchase language that Deuteronomy 32:6 will develop: is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you? The buying is not commercial but covenantal — God has paid the price (the plagues, the Passover) to claim Israel as His own. Acts 20:28 uses the same language of the church: which he bought with his own blood. The people who pass through the stilled nations are the people bought by God.

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