Psalms 74:13

11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

12 Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
KJV
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
WEB
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
ASV
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
DARBY
*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
BLB
You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the dragons upon the waters.
ÅB
Du er den som skilte havet med din styrke, knuste dragenes hoder på vannene.
OTB
Du delte havet ved din styrke;
Du knuste hodene på havdyrene i vannet.
B1930
Du er den som skilte havet med din styrke, knuste dragenes hoder på vannene.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 14:21

    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

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  • Psalms 78:13

    He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

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  • Isaiah 51:9–10

    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

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  • Ezekiel 29:3

    Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

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  • Ezekiel 32:2

    “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

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  • Psalms 136:13–18

    He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

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  • Psalms 106:8–9

    Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

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  • Psalms 66:6

    He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

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