Exodus 15:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation— There is in this song so great a variety in the tenses, as they are at present fixed by grammarians, that there can be no impropriety in giving to this passage such a version as makes it conformable with the fact. In agreement with Houbigant, therefore, we would render this verse, Thou, in thy mercy, leadest forth the people, whom thou hast redeemed: thou, in thy strength, leadest them forth to thy holy habitation: which holy habitation may either signify the land of Canaan, or the tabernacle of holiness, which God inhabited among them in the wilderness. The Hebrew word, which we render to lead, presents to us the idea of God peaceably conducting his flock like a shepherd.