Psalms 74:14

Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

In Context

13Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -[monster], Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,

15Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:35And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses, and they ask from the Egyptians vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments;

Numbers 14:9only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they [are]; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah [is] with us; fear them not.'

Job 41:1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down — his tongue?

Psalms 104:25This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There [are] moving things — innumerable, Living creatures — small with great.

Revelation 20:2and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:13-18

Acknowledgments of Divine Power. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the… Read the whole commentary →

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