Exo 15:2-6, Psa 18:2, Isa 12:2, 45:17, 22-25, Mat 1:21-23 | ESV | STEP | The Lord is my strength and my song , and he has become my salvation ; this is my God , and I will praise him , my father’s God , and I will exalt him.

Exodus 15:2-6

2 ^aThe Lord is my strength and my ^bsong,
and he has become ^cmy salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
^dmy father’s God, and ^eI will exalt him.
3 The Lord is ^fa man of war;
^gthe Lord is his name.
4 ^h“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen ⁱofficers were sunk in the Red Sea.
5 The ^jfloods covered them;
they ^kwent down into the depths like a stone.
6 ^lYour right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, ^mshatters the enemy.

Psalms 18:2

2 The Lord is my ⁿrock and my ^ofortress and my deliverer,
my God, my ^prock, in ^qwhom I take refuge,
my ^rshield, and ^sthe horn of my salvation, my ^tstronghold.

Isaiah 12:2

2 “Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for ^uthe Lord God ^{▼▼Hebrew for Yah, the Lord} is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 45:17

17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
with everlasting salvation;
^wyou shall not be put to shame or confounded
to all eternity.

Isaiah 45:22-25

22 “Turn to me and be saved,
^xall the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 ^yBy myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone out in ^zrighteousness
a word that shall not return:
^aa‘To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ ^{▼▼Septuagint every tongue shall confess to God}
24 ^ac“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and ^adstrength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
^aeall who were incensed against him.
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory.”

Matthew 1:21-23

21 She will bear a son, and ^afyou shall call his name Jesus, ^agfor he will save his people from their sins.” 22 ^ahAll this took place ^aito fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

23 ^aj“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name ^akImmanuel”
(which means, God ^alwith us).