MANNAFEST

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

KJV

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ASV

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

WEB

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

YLT

Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea- monster , Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,

DBT

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author
David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date
Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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