Psalms 74:14

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Isa 27:1 : 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.
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
  • Exod 14:30 : 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.
  • Num 14:9 : 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.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
  • Job 41:1-9 : 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? 11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. 15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. 22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. 25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. 26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. 27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. 28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. 29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. 30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. 33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. 34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Ps 104:25-26 : 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the shi: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
  • Rev 20:2 : 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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  • 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

  • 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

  • 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.

  • Ps 104:26-27
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    26 There go the shi: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

    27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

  • Job 41:1-2
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    1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

    2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

  • Hab 3:13-15
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    13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

    14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

    15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

  • Ps 89:9-10
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    9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

    10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

  • Exod 15:6-10
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    6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

    7 And in the greatness of thine cellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

    8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

    9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

    10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

  • 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a sto into the mighty waters.

  • Ezek 29:4-5
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    4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

    5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

  • 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

  • 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

  • 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

  • 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

  • 12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

  • 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

  • 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

  • 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

  • 10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

  • 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

  • 7 Thou breakest the shi of Tarshish with an east wind.

  • 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

  • 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

  • 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

  • 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

  • 15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

  • 41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

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    9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

  • 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

  • 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scas in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

  • 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

  • 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;