| Geneva Study Bible Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the {i} dragons in the waters. (i) That is, Pharaoh's army. Wesley's Notes 74:13 Dragons - He means Pharaoh and his mighty men. King James Translators' Notes divide: Heb. break dragons: or, whales Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 13-15. Examples of the "salvation wrought" are cited. divide the sea-that is, Red Sea. brakest . waters-Pharaoh and his host (compare Isa 51:9, 10; Eze 29:3, 4). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 74:12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes. | 
