KJV King James Version
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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Psalm 74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
WEB World English Bible
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,
Surrounding context — Psalm 74
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom.
12 For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided.Psalm 78:13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.Isaiah 51:9-10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?Ezekiel 29:3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.Ezekiel 32:2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.Psalm 66:6He turned the sea into dry [land]: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.Psalm 136:13-18To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:Nehemiah 9:11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.Isaiah 11:15-16And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.Exodus 14:28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.Psalm 106:8-9Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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