Exodus 15:9-10

9, 10. Third strain . Now the enemy is personified, and his boasts and threats are dramatically pictured in six terse, strong phrases, all compressed into ten nervous words, which our translation has broken up into twenty-five! In successive flashes it reveals the Egyptian host, proud, confident, fierce, eager for their prey, dashing on their chase through the darkness into the cloven sea; and then the closing couplet paints once more the waters returning at the blast of Jehovah’s breath .

Like lead So Homer, Iliad, 24: 80: “She, (Iris,) like the lead, plunged to the abyss . ”