Psalms 74:14

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You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.

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  • Isa 27:1 : 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing. 36 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.
  • Exod 14:30 : 30 So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
  • Job 41:1-9 : 1 The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3 Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 4 Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 5 Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 6 Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? 7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? 8 If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight. Do not do it again! 9 (41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. 10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 12 I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. 13 Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome. 15 Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; 16 each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them. 17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated. 18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn. 19 Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth! 20 Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes. 21 Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth. 22 Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it. 23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable. 24 Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw. 26 Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart. 27 It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. 28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it. 29 A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. 30 Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. 31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair. 33 The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 34 It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.
  • Ps 104:25-26 : 25 Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large. 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.
  • Rev 20:2 : 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years.

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  • 13 You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

  • 15 You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

  • Ps 104:26-27
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    26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

    27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

  • Job 41:1-2
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    1 The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

    2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

  • Hab 3:13-15
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    13 You march out to deliver your people, to deliver your special servant. You strike the leader of the wicked nation, laying him open from the lower body to the neck. Selah.

    14 You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

    15 But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.

  • Ps 89:9-10
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    9 You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

    10 You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

  • Exod 15:6-10
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    6 Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power, your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.

    7 In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

    8 By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

    9 The enemy said,‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

    10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • 11 You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

  • Ezek 29:4-5
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    4 I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

    5 I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

  • 19 Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

  • 6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD!

  • 10 There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • 7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

  • 12 By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

  • 14 You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • 12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.

  • 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

  • 7 when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

  • 10 He defeated many nations, and killed mighty kings–

  • 11 You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

  • 7 With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

  • 15 The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

  • 15 He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

  • 16 The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • 14 Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the LORD granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.

  • 40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

  • 15 The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

  • 41 You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

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    9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • 12 The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • 13 You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.

  • 4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.

  • 40 You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • 9 Clean and Unclean Water Creatures“‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

  • 4 For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

  • 20 “Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.