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In just three verses in our chapter, the prophet weaves together three times: the \u201cdays of old,\u201d when God had to fight to keep the world safe; the ancient times when Israel was liberated by God from Egypt; and the future, when even greater divine acts are in store. Amazingly, this is done seamlessly, as one flows naturally into the other:<\/span><\/p>\n

O arm of the Lord! Awake as in days of old, As in former ages! It was you that hacked Rahab in pieces, who pierced the Dragon.<\/span><\/p>\n

We readers may plausibly give a start here. Rahab? Dragon? These sound like creatures from some other religious tradition, not Tanakh. But in fact, not only is Rahab mentioned elsewhere in the Bible (Psalms 89:11), the Rabbinic tradition has it that Rahab is the \u201cprince of the sea\u201d (Talmud Bava Batra 74b).<\/span><\/p>\n

But the prophet is not interested only in those days long gone. \u201cPiercing the dragon\u201d was an act of creation, but also a foreshadowing of a later, better-known act:<\/span><\/p>\n

It was you that dried up the Sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depth of the Sea a road the redeemed might walk.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cSea\u201d may sound at first like a reference to the primordial Sea, the legendary Rahab who needed to be split to create the world, but the second half of this verse clearly has something more concrete in mind: the Sea of Reeds, split so the \u201credeemed ones\u201d \u2013 Israel following the Exodus \u2013 could walk through.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this, in turn, lays the groundwork for the next stage:<\/span><\/p>\n

So let the redeemed ones of the Lord return, let them come to Zion with shouts. Crowned with joy everlasting, let them attain joy and gladness, while sorrow and sighing flee.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Exodus is here, as elsewhere, the precedent for what is yet to come. 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