Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.
Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The 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.