What is meant by Psalms 74:14: "Thou didst crush the heads of the Leviathan, thou didst give him for food to the desert people"?
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Psalm 74 describes God's record of salvation for his people, and verses 13 and 14 refer symbolically to his deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Here the term "sea monsters" [Heb., than·ni·nim?², plural of tan·ninâ?²] is used as a parallel expression to "Leviathan," and the crushing of the heads of Leviathan may well refer to the crushing defeat administered to Pharaoh and his army at the time of the Exodus. The Aramaic Targums here give "the strong ones of Pharaoh" in place of :"the heads of Leviathan." (Compare Ezekiel 29:3-5), where Pharaoh is likened to a "great sea monster" in the midst of the Nile canals; also Eze 32:2.) Isaiah 27:1 apparently employs Leviathan (LXX, "the dragon") as a symbol of an empire, an organization that is international in scope and that is dominated by one who himself is referred to as "serpent" and "dragon" (Re 12:9) The prophecy is one of restoration for Israel, and therefore Jehovah's "turning attention" to Leviathan must include Babylon.
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