Psalm 74:13

Translations

Modern

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Traditional

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Literal

You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the dragons upon the waters.

Latin

Tu confirmasti in virtute tua mare; contribulasti capita draconum in aquis.

Original

Hebrew

English

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Notes

Psalms 74:1–23

The psalmist laments the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. This happened in 586 BC. The psalmist uses vivid imagery, asks questions, recalls fresh memories, and directly asks the Lord to act (Psalm 74:19–23).

Psalms 73:1–75:10

The seeming success of the wicked (Psalm 73) and God's apparent rejection of his people (Psalm 74) raise questions about his justice. God rules the entire world and decides when to judge (Psalm 75).

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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
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He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
Isaiah 51:9–10
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
Ezekiel 29:3
Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
Ezekiel 32:2
“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
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He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
Nehemiah 9:11
You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
Isaiah 11:15–16
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
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He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
Psalm 106:8–9
Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
Exodus 14:28
The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

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