Psalm 74:14
New International Version
It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.

New Living Translation
You crushed the heads of Leviathan and let the desert animals eat him.

English Standard Version
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Berean Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

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

New King James Version
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

NASB 1995
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

NASB 1977
Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan; Thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Legacy Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the desert.

Amplified Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Christian Standard Bible
you crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the creatures of the desert.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

American Standard Version
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You broke the heads of Leviathan and you have given food to the mighty people.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.

Contemporary English Version
You crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan, then fed him to wild creatures in the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

English Revised Version
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave them to the creatures of the desert for food.

Good News Translation
you crushed the heads of the monster Leviathan and fed his body to desert animals.

International Standard Version
You crushed the heads of Leviathan. You set it as food for desert creatures.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

Literal Standard Version
You have broken the heads of leviathan, | You make him food for the people of desert-dwellers.

Majority Standard Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

New American Bible
You crushed the heads of Leviathan, gave him as food to the sharks.

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

New Revised Standard Version
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

New Heart English Bible
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food 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.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

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Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea; 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. 15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.…

Cross References
Job 41:1
"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Psalm 72:9
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Psalm 104:26
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Isaiah 27:1
In 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.


Treasury of Scripture

You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

leviathan

Psalm 104:25,26
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts…

Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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

meat

Psalm 72:9
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Exodus 12:35,36
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: …

Exodus 14:30
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

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Psalm 74
1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary
10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power
18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant.














(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).

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You
אַתָּ֣ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

crushed
רִ֭צַּצְתָּ (riṣ·ṣaṣ·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7533: To crack in pieces

the heads
רָאשֵׁ֣י (rā·šê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7218: The head

of Leviathan;
לִוְיָתָ֑ן (liw·yā·ṯān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3882: A wreathed animal, a serpent, dragon, Babylon

You fed him
תִּתְּנֶ֥נּוּ (tit·tə·nen·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to the creatures
לְעָ֣ם (lə·‘ām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of the desert.
לְצִיִּֽים׃ (lə·ṣî·yîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6728: Wild beast of the desert, that dwell in inhabiting the wilderness


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