Psalms 74:13
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 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.
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
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Read in contextPsalms 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:9–10
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Read in contextEzekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Read in contextEzekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Read in contextPsalms 136:13–18
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Read in contextPsalms 106:8–9
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Read in contextPsalms 66:6
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
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