Psalm 74:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

You crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave them to the creatures of the desert for food. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

BBE:

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

DBY:

Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

ERV:

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

JPS:

Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

WBS:

Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

WEB:

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

YLT:

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

Psalm 74:14 Cross References

XREF:

Job 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Psalm 72:9 Let the nomads of the desert bow before him, And his enemies lick the dust.

Psalm 104:26 There the ships move along, And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

74:14 Thou brakest the heads of {k} leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] {l} meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
(k) Which was a great monster of the sea, or whale, meaning Pharaoh.
(l) His destruction rejoiced them as meat refreshes the body.

WES:

74:14 Leviathan - Pharaoh. The people - To the ravenous birds and beasts of the desert. These creatures are significantly called the people of the wilderness, because they are the only people that inhabit it.

MHC:

74:12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes.

CONC:

Brakest Break Broke Broken Creatures Crush Crushed Desert Dry Fishes Folk Gavest Hast Heads Inhabiting Leviathan Makest Meat Pieces Places Snake Wilderness

Brakest Break Broke Broken Creatures Crush Crushed Desert Dry Fishes Folk Food Gavest Great Head Heads Inhabiting Leviathan Makest Meat Pieces Places Sea Snake Wilderness

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