Kommentar zu Schemot 15:13

נהלת is of the same root, conjugation and meaning as מנהל a leader; Onkelos translated it in the sense of bearing and carrying, but he was not particular to translate according to the Hebrew expression (i. e., to translate literally)

THOU IN THY LOVE HAST LED THE PEOPLE THAT THOU HAST REDEEMED; THOU HAST GUIDED THEM IN THY STRENGTH TO THY HOLY HABITATION. Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explained that this is a past tense in place of the future, as is customary in prophecies. In my opinion, Moses is saying: “Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand²¹¹Verse 12. upon the enemy, and the earth swallowed them, but Thou in Thy love hast led — in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way²¹²Above, 13:21. — the people that Thou hast redeemed, and Thou hast guided them in the strength of Thy hands to Thy holy habitation,” for it is to that holy habitation that they were going, and so also, And all nations shall flow unto it.²¹³Isaiah 2:2. Thy holy habitation is a reference to the Sanctuary [in Jerusalem], as Moses says again, The Sanctuary, O Eternal, which Thy hands have established.²¹⁴Further, Verse 17. And so the Rabbis have said in the Mechilta:²¹⁵Mechilta on the verse here. “Habitation is but a designation for the Sanctuary, as it is said, Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn gatherings; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceful habitation.”²¹⁶Isaiah 33:20.

נחית בחסדך עם זו גאלת, ever since You redeemed them and took over their leadership at the boundary of Egypt at Sukkot, as we know from 13,20-21.