the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Psalms 74:14
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You crushed the heads of Leviathan;You gave him as food for the creatures of the desert.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces: and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse.
*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
You cracked open the heads of leviathan; You gave him to be food for the people of the wilderness.
Yes, you smashed the heads of Leviathan and left his body for animals to eat.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
Thou brakest the heads of Leuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to bee meat to the people inhabiting the wildernesse.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou denydest ye see thorow thy power, thou breakest the heades of the dragos in the waters.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
You broke the heads of leviathan in pieces; You gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, [and] didst give him [to be] food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.
You crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan, then fed him to wild creatures in the desert.
you crushed the heads of Livyatan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.
Thou didst break the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and thou gavest him as food to a strong people.
You broke the heads of Livyatan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.
You crushed the heads of the Leviathan. And You fed him to the animals of the desert.
Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Thou, didst crush the heads of the Sea-Monster, Thou didst give him to be food, for the people of the deserts;
(73-14) Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
You smashed the heads of the monster Leviathan and gave it to the desert creatures as food.
you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Thou hast broke the heedis of `the dragoun; thou hast youe hym to mete to the puplis of Ethiopiens.
Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.
Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
leviathan: Psalms 104:25, Psalms 104:26, Job 3:8, *marg. Job 41:1-34, Isaiah 27:1, Revelation 20:2
meat: Psalms 72:9, Exodus 12:35, Exodus 12:36, Exodus 14:30, Numbers 14:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:10 - blow Job 26:13 - the crooked serpent Psalms 44:19 - in the Psalms 106:21 - which Psalms 148:7 - ye dragons Isaiah 43:16 - maketh Isaiah 51:9 - put Ezekiel 29:3 - the great Ezekiel 29:5 - I have Ezekiel 32:2 - and thou art as Ezekiel 32:4 - General Habakkuk 3:13 - thou woundedst
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,.... A large fish, generally thought to be the whale, by some the crocodile, described in Job 41:1 to which the king of Egypt or Babylon is compared, Isaiah 27:1 and so the Romish antichrist in one of his characters is represented as a sea beast with many heads, which will all be broken in pieces in due time, Revelation 13:1, as here is one "leviathan" with heads in the plural number. Aben Ezra thinks the word
כל is wanting, and may be supplied thus, "thou hast broken the heads of every leviathan"; it may be interpreted as before of Pharaoh and his chief men; so the Targum,
"thou hast broken the heads of the mighty men of Pharaoh:''
and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness; either to the wild beasts, called "tziim", the word here used,
Isaiah 13:21 and may be called a people, as the ants and coneys are,
Proverbs 30:25, to whom the dead bodies of Pharaoh and his host, drowned in the Red sea, were given for food, when they were cast upon the shore, where the Israelites saw them dead, Exodus 14:28, or to the "Ichthyophagy", a sort of people that dwelt by the Red sea, and lived on fishes; and so the Egyptians became their food, they living upon the fish which devoured their bodies, at least some of them: the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, render it, "to the people", the Ethiopians; who, it seems, living upon the borders of Egypt, took this opportunity, when Pharaoh and his host were drowned, and seized upon their country; but others refer it to the people of Israel themselves, as the Targum,
"thou hast given them for destruction to the people of the house of Israel, and their bodies to the dragons;''
and so Jarchi,
"thou hast given his mammon or riches to the people of Israel, to feed their companies and armies;''
and Kimchi interprets it of the spoil of the sea which the Israelites took from them; and they may be truly called the people inhabiting the wilderness, since they were in one forty years; so the Romish "leviathan", or antichristian whore, will be given to the Christian kings, who will hate her, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire; and to the Christian church, which now is in the wilderness, where it is nourished for a time and times, and half a time.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces - On the meaning of the word “leviathan,” see the notes at Job 41:1. The word is used here as descriptive of sea monsters.
And gavest him to be meat - Gavest him for “food.”
To the people inhabiting the wilderness - That is, the sea monsters were killed, and, being thrown on shore, were gathered for food. The “inhabitants of the wilderness” or the desert, may refer either to the wild and savage tribes of men that lived on the shores of the sea, and that subsisted mainly on fish, or it may refer to the wild animals of the desert that consumed such sea monsters as they were cast up on the shore. There is no allusion to the Israelites considered as passing through the desert, as if they had fed on these sea monsters. The essential idea is, that these monsters were put to death, or were so removed but of the way as to offer no obstruction to the passage of the Israelites through the sea. It was as if they had been killed. The image is entirely poetic, and there is no necessity for supposing that such a thing literally occurred.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 74:14. The heads of leviathan — Leviathan might be intended here as a personification of the Egyptian government; and its heads, Pharaoh and his chief captains.
To the people inhabiting the wilderness. — Probably meaning the birds and beasts of prey. These were the people of the wilderness, which fed on the dead bodies of the Egyptians, which the tides had cast ashore. The Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic read, "Thou hast given him for meat to the Ethiopians," or Abyssinians.
