The LORD Fights for Israel in Every Generation

"Let me flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them" (Exodus 14:25). They said: He who performed miracles for them in Egypt is performing miracles for them at the sea. Rabbi Yose says: from where do you say that with the plagues by which these were struck at the sea, so were they struck in Egypt, and they could see one another, and so on? And it says, "My adversaries and my enemies" (Psalms 27:2); "And I will turn My hand against their adversaries" (Psalms 81:15); and it says, "The ten sons of Haman" (Esther 9), and so on; and it says, "To break Assyria in My land" (Isaiah 14:25); and it says, "And the envy of Ephraim shall depart" (Isaiah 11:13). Thus does this measure proceed through all the generations: "This is the counsel that is counseled upon all the earth" (Isaiah 14:26). Why? "For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it?" (Isaiah 14:27). So it was not in Egypt alone, but with all who oppress them through all the generations. Therefore it is said, "For the LORD fights for them" against Egypt.