Psalms 74 Footnotes

74:13-14 The psalm uses the language of Canaanite myths to affirm the absolute sovereignty of God. “Leviathan” and the “sea monsters” were the pagan’s way of deifying the uncontrollable force of nature in the sea. But God defeated the sea at the exodus (114:1; Is 51:9-10), meaning he controlled the sea to destroy the Egyptian army. In defeating Egypt, and later Assyria and Babylon, he also defeated the gods they worshiped (89:9-10; Nm 33:4; Jb 26:12; Ezk 29:3; see notes on Ps 104:26; Is 27:1).