Leviathan

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. — read the full passage →

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

Moreover Yahweh answered Job, — read the full passage →

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. — read the full passage →

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Moreover Yahweh answered Job, — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. — read the full passage →

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? — read the full passage →

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? — read the full passage →

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea. — read the full passage →

Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’ — read the full passage →

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer; when I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain: