Psalms 74:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing: 36 And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.
  • Exod 14:30 : 30 So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge.
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
  • Job 41:1-9 : 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? 2 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! 3 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. 4 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? 5 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. 6 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. 7 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. 8 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. 9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. 10 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. 11 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. 12 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 13 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. 14 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. 15 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. 16 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. 17 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. 18 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. 19 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. 20 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. 21 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. 22 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. 23 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. 24 On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. 25 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.
  • Ps 104:25-26 : 25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. 26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
  • Rev 20:2 : 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,

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  • Ps 74:13
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    13 The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

  • Ps 74:15
    83%

    15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • Isa 27:1
    75%

    1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

  • Ps 104:26-27
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    26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

    27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

  • Job 41:1-2
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    73%

    1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

    2 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

  • Hab 3:13-15
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    72%

    13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.

    14 You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

    15 The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.

  • Ps 89:9-10
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    72%

    9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

    10 Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

  • Exod 15:6-10
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    6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.

    7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

    8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

    9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

    10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

  • Neh 9:11
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    11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

  • Ezek 29:4-5
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    4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

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  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

  • Job 4:10
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    10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • Job 41:7
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    7 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

  • Isa 51:10
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    10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

  • Job 26:12
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    12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

  • Hab 1:14
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    14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

  • Exod 15:12
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    12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

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    17 By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

  • Ezek 29:7
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    7 When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

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    10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;

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    11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7 By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.

  • Ps 18:15
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    15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

  • Ps 78:15
    68%

    15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
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    16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • Isa 63:14
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    14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

  • Job 40:15
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    15 He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

  • 2 Sam 22:41
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    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 2:9
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    9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

  • Nah 2:12
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    12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • Ps 91:13
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    13 You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

  • Ezek 39:4
    67%

    4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.

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    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Lev 11:9
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    9 These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

  • Isa 9:4
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    4 For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

  • Jer 51:20
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    20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;