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- Chapter 74
- Verse 14
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood,.... That is, the rocks at Horeb and at Kadesh, from whence water flowed as out of a fountain, and became a flood, whereby the people of Israel were…
Barnes' Notes
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces - On the meaning of the word “leviathan,” see the notes at Job 41:1. The word is used here as descriptive of sea monsters. And gavest him to be meat -…
The lamenting church fastens upon something here which she calls to mind, and therefore hath she hope (as Lam 3:21), with which she encourages herself and silences her own complaints. Two things quiet…
Cambridge Bible
Thou brakest&c. Thou didst crush … thou didst give him &c. The dead bodies of the Egyptians were cast up on the shore (Exo 14:30) to be devoured by the wild beasts of the desert. Cp. Eze 29:3-5. For…
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