Psalms 74:13

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11 ^aWhy do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.

12 For ^aGod is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 ^aYou divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the¹ sea serpents in the waters.

14 You broke the heads of¹ Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

15 ^aYou broke open the fountain and the flood;
^bYou dried up mighty rivers.

16 The day is Yours, the night also is ^aYours;
^bYou have prepared the light and the sun.

17 You have ^aset all the borders of the earth;
^bYou have made summer and winter.

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Psalms 74:13

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength - Margin, as in Hebrew, "break." That is, he had by his power "broken up" the strength of the sea so that it offered no resistance to their passing through it. The allusion is evidently to the passage through the Red Sea, Exodus 14:21.

Thou brakest the heads of the dragons - Margin, "whales." On the meaning of the word used here - tannı̂yn - see the notes at Isaiah 13:22; notes at Job 30:29. It refers here, undoubtedly, to crocodiles or sea monsters. The language here is used to denote the absolute power of God as manifested over the sea when the people of Israel passed through it. It was as if by slaying all the mighty monsters of the deep that would have resisted their passage, he had made their transit entirely safe.

In the waters - That reside in the waters of the sea.

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