6. We have sinned, just as our people of long ago did. We too have done what is evil and wrong.
7. When our people were in Egypt, they forgot about the Lord's miracles. They didn't remember his many kind acts. At the Red Sea they refused to obey him.
8. But he saved them for the honor of his name. He did it to make his mighty power known.
9. He ordered the Red Sea to dry up, and it did. He led his people through it as if it were a desert.
10. He saved them from the power of their enemies. He set them free from their control.
11. The waters covered their enemies. Not one of them escaped alive.