The psalm begins to connect the cosmic theophany to the historical salvation: "Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters; yet your footprints were unseen." This verse explicitly links the cosmic storm imagery to the exodus narrative—God's passage through the sea at the Red Sea crossing. The paradox that God's path was through the waters yet the footprints were unseen suggests that God's way of acting can be both visible in its effects and hidden in its means; God's saving purpose becomes clear only in retrospect. This verse resolves the tension between God's hiddenness (felt as abandonment in the earlier lament) and God's mighty acts.

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