“That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?”
The community asks where is YHWH now who made the arm glorious, who divided the waters before them, who made himself an eternal name through mighty deeds. The rhetorical questions express loss and questioning: where is the YHWH of past saving-acts? The specific mention of divided waters echoes the exodus-crossing. The emphasis on YHWH's self-glorification through deeds establishes that divine character is manifest through action. The questions' structure assumes present diminishment: past greatness is contrasted with current apparent absence.
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