Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Holman Bible
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters;
International Standard Version
You split the sea by your own power. You shattered the heads of sea monsters in the water.
A Conservative Version
Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
American Standard Version
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
Amplified
You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the
Darby Translation
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst cleave the sea in thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons upon the waters.
King James 2000
You did divide the sea by your strength: you broke the heads of the serpents in the waters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You split open [the] sea by your strength; You broke [the] heads of [the] sea monsters in the waters.
Modern King James verseion
You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou dividest the sea through thy power, thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
NET Bible
You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.
New Heart English Bible
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, till they floated on the waters;
Webster
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.
World English Bible
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 74:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Israel
12 For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth. 13 The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken. 14 The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 14:21
And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.
Psalm 78:13
The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.
Ezekiel 29:3
Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.
Exodus 14:28
And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
Nehemiah 9:11
By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.
Psalm 66:6
The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
Psalm 106:8-9
But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power.
Psalm 136:13-18
To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Isaiah 11:15-16
And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.
Isaiah 51:9-10
Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.