Verses 6-8
6-8. Second strain . Now the poet breaks out into a bold apostrophe to Jehovah . Here are seven lines in two couplets and one triplet, rising in climax from a declaration of his power to a description of its manifestation at the Red Sea, first in plain language, and then in tropes which steadily rise in fervour and boldness.
Blast of thy nostrils Sublime imagery for the “strong east wind” which God made to blow “all that night.”
Rise like a heap… stiffen The waters are poetically painted as solid masses, heaped up like walls. Habakkuk sang in a yet bolder strain: The deep lifted up his voice, (and) raised his hands on high. Habakkuk 3:10.
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