Psalm 74:14 {73:14}
Good News Translation
you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.

New Revised Standard Version
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
You crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan, then fed him to wild creatures in the desert.

New American Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan, gave him as food to the sharks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

leviathan

Psalm 104:25,26 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great. . . .

Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

meat

Psalm 72:9 Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.

Exodus 12:35,36 And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment. . . .

Exodus 14:30 And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.

Numbers 14:9 Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
13Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.…
Cross References
Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Psalm 72:9
Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.

Psalm 104:26
There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Psalm 74:13
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