he i.e. Jehovah, as He did through the Red Sea, when He gave the first great deliverance to His people.

with affliction i.e. to His enemies. Comp. Exodus 14:24-25; Exodus 14:27; Exodus 15:3-7. This is perhaps the best rendering of this difficult and much disputed clause. The sea of affliction, R. V.

smite the waves Comp. Exodus 15:8. See also Isaiah 11:15-16, where a similar reference occurs to the passage of the Red Sea.

the river i.e. the Nile, as the Heb. word used indicates.

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