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Tongue Sharp Tools. Psalm Topical Bible Thematic Bible. In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
He who argues with God, let him answer it. I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.
Bless the Lord , O my soul! Who can penetrate its double coat of armor? Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; Job Do we run into any other animals in Scripture with similar descriptions? Or is this an outlier case? As it turns out, we have another creature in the Bible that seems to have almost out-of-this-world descriptions.
Many of us have heard the name of this creature before but may not know to what the Bible is referring to. Introducing the behemoth. If we haven't read it in Scripture, we've likely encountered this name in some pop culture media reference. Scripture introduces this creature right around the time it does for the leviathan. Let's take a look to see what the Bible says about this animal. Job : "Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play. He created the oceans and the great creatures that live in them. They all belong to him, and are his to dispose of as he pleases. Paul cited quotes about Zeus from a pair of Greek poets to show the Athenians that they were the offspring of God, in whom they lived and moved and had their being.
There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. Compared with the judgment narratives in Isaiah 27 and Psalm 74, the tone of Psalm is radically different, as is the image of Leviathan pictured therein. The whole of Psalm is a joyful paean to the splendour of God, expressed through the wonders of his creation. Humanity is woven into this tapestry, engaging in creative, fruitful work and enjoying the good things God has made. And Leviathan is part of the celebration, breaching the waves in sight of the ships that go sailing by, sharing the ocean with a wealth of marine life, looking to God for its food in due course.
It fulfills its divine mandate by playing — some translations say frolicking or splashing about. The Hebrew word has a sense of playing together, suggesting that God enters into the pleasure of this animal he has made, as one would with a beloved pet.
Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
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