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Psalm 74:11-13
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 74:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 Why do you hold back your right hand?
Take it out from your robe and destroy them.[a]
12 Yet you, O God, are my King from of old,
working deeds of salvation throughout the earth.
13 [b]By your power you split the sea in two
and shattered the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Footnotes
- Psalm 74:11 To do battle, the warrior bared his arm from his garment (see Isa 52:10).
- Psalm 74:13 Allusion to the crossing of the Red Sea (see Ex 14:30) and the defeat of the Egyptians (see Isa 27:1; Ezek 29:3; 32:4). Leviathan: a mythological multi-headed monster of chaos; here it seems to stand especially for Egypt (for Egypt’s crocodiles, see Job 40:25f).
