Psalm 74:14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.

◄ Psalm 74:14 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.

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

New American Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

International Standard Version
You crushed the heads of Leviathan. You set it as food for desert creatures.

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

Cross References

Job 41:1
Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

Psalm 72:9
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalm 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom you have made to play therein.

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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. heads of leviathan—The word is a collective, and so used for many.

the people … wilderness—that is, wild beasts, as conies (Pr 30:25, 26), are called a people. Others take the passages literally, that the sea monsters thrown out on dry land were food for the wandering Arabs.