Psalms 74:14
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.
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.
Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Du sønderslo Leviatans[^1] hoder, du gav den til føde for ørkenens folk.
- OTB
- Du knuste hodene på Leviatan;
Du ga ham som mat til skapningene i ørkenen. - B1930
- Du sønderslo Leviatans hoder, du gav den til føde for ørkenens folk. / < d.e. et stort sjødyr.>
- BSB
- You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
- KJV
- Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat 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.
- ASV
- Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- DARBY
- *Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
- BLB
- You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him [as] food to the people of the dry places.
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Kryssreferanser
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Les i sammenhengJob 41:1–34
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Les i sammenhengPsalms 72:9
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Les i sammenhengPsalms 104:25–26
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Les i sammenhengJob 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Les i sammenhengNumbers 14:9
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Les i sammenhengExodus 14:30
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
Les i sammenhengRevelation 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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