Psalm 74:13 {73:13}
Good News Translation
With your mighty strength you divided the sea and smashed the heads of the sea monsters;

New Revised Standard Version
You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Contemporary English Version
By your power you made a path through the sea, and you smashed the heads of sea monsters.

New American Bible
You stirred up the sea by your might; you smashed the heads of the dragons on the waters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

divide.

Psalm 66:6 Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Psalm 106:8,9 And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known. . . .

Psalm 136:13-18 Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Exodus 14:21 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

Nehemiah 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

Isaiah 11:15,16 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes. . . .

brakest

Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain.

Isaiah 51:9,10 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon? . . .

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

dragons.

Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
12But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 13Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.…
Cross References
Exodus 14:21
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

Psalm 78:13
He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Psalm 148:7
Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:

Isaiah 51:9
Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon?

Jeremiah 51:34
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

Psalm 74:12
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