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Psalms 74:14
Psalms 74:14 is verse 14 of Psalms chapter 74, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
King James Version
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
World English Bible
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
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Psalms 74:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
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Psalms 104:25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Job 41:2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
Job 41:4Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
Job 41:5Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
Job 41:6Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
Job 41:9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
Job 41:10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
Job 41:11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.
Job 41:13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
Job 41:14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Job 41:15His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
Job 41:16One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
Job 41:17They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:19Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
Job 41:20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Job 41:21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
Job 41:22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Job 41:24His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
Job 41:25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
Job 41:26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.
Job 41:27He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
Job 41:29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
Job 41:30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
Job 41:31He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
Job 41:33Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
Job 41:34He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Revelation 20:2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
Psalms 72:9May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
Exodus 12:35Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.
Exodus 12:36And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
Exodus 14:30That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
Numbers 14:9Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”