Psalms 74:14

“Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, etc.] A large fish, generally thought to be the whale, by some the crocodile, described in (<184101>Job 41:1) to which the king of Egypt or Babylon is compared, (<232701>Isaiah 27:1) and so the Romish antichrist in one of his characters is represented as a sea beast with many heads, which will all be broken in pieces in due time, (<661301>Revelation 13:1), as here is one “leviathan” with heads in the plural number. Aben Ezra thinks the word lk is wanting, and may be supplied thus, “thou hast broken the heads of every leviathan”; it may be interpreted as before of Pharaoh and his chief men; so the Targum, “thou hast broken the heads of the…”

“Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces - On the meaning of the word “leviathan,” see the notes at Job 41:1. The word is used here as descriptive of sea monsters. And gavest him to be meat - Gavest him for “food.” To the people inhabiting the wilderness - That is, the sea monsters were killed, and, being thrown on shore, were gathered for food. The “inhabitants of the wilderness” or the desert, may refer either to the wild and savage tribes of men that lived on the shores of the sea, and that subsisted mainly on fish, or it may refer to the wild animals of the desert that consumed such sea monsters as they were cast up on the shore. There is no allusion to the Israelites considered as…”

“Leviathan - Pharaoh. The people - To the ravenous birds and beasts of the desert. These creatures are significantly called the people of the wilderness, because they are the only people that inhabit it. Psalms 74:15”

“74:14 Leviathan: See 104:26; Job 3:8; 41:1, 12, 22, 31; Isa 27:1. Here, the creature’s multiple heads suggest a mythical monster.”

“leviathan: Psa 104:25, Psa 104:26; Job 3:8 \*marg. Job 41:1-34; Isa 27:1; Rev 20:2 meat: Psa 72:9; Exo 12:35, Exo 12:36, Exo 14:30; Num 14:9 Psalms 74:15”