The Lord reigns for ever and ever. The Song of the Sea closes with the most compressed theological declaration in the poem: the Lord reigns, forever and ever. Every element of the song — the sea crossing, the drowning of Egypt, the incomparability of God, the nations trembling, the planting in the land, the establishment of the sanctuary — all of it is grounded in and flows from this: the Lord reigns. Psalm 93:1 opens: the Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty — the Psalm tradition picks up the Song of the Sea's closing declaration as its own opening. Revelation 11:15 records the seventh trumpet: the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever. The forever and ever of Exodus 15:18 will not be resolved until every earthly power has acknowledged what the sea crossing declared.

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