Psalms Chapter 74 verse 14 Holy Bible
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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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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*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
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Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces. Here the metaphor is only slightly varied, leviathan, "the crocodile," being substituted for tannim, "the dragon," or "sea monster," as the representative of the might of Egypt. And gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. The corpses of the Egyptians thrown up upon the Red Sea shores (Exodus 14:30) are certainly the "meat" intended. Whether the "people of dwellers in the wilderness" are cannibal tribes, or jackals and hyenas, is perhaps doubtful.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Leviathan.--See last note.And gavest him . . .--The crocodile was eaten by the people of Elephantine (Herod. ii. 69), but there is no allusion here to that custom, nor to the Ichthyophagi mentioned by Agatharchides, nor to the 'thiopians (as in the LXX.). It is the Egyptian corpses thrown up by the Red Sea that are to be devoured (comp. Ezekiel 29:3-5) by the "wild beasts," called here "people," as the ants and conies are (Proverbs 30:25-26).
