Bible Verses about โleviathanโ
The Bible contains 48 verses about leviathan across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โIn 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.โ
โ"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?โ
โ"See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.โ
โHis bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.โ
โHe lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.โ
โLook now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.โ
โHe moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.โ
โHe is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.โ
โSurely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.โ
โThe lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.โ
โBehold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.โ
โShall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?โ
โCan you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?โ
โWill he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?โ
โWill he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?โ
โWill you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?โ
โWill traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?โ
โNone is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?โ
โWho has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.โ
โOut of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.โ
โOut of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.โ
โHis breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.โ
โCan you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?โ
โLay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.โ
โBehold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?โ
โ"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.โ
โWho can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?โ
โWho can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.โ
โStrong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.โ
โOne is so near to another, that no air can come between them.โ
โThey are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.โ
โHis sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.โ
โThere is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.โ
โThe flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.โ
โHis heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.โ
โWhen he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.โ
โIf one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.โ
โHe counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.โ
โThe arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.โ
โClubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.โ
โHis undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.โ
โHe makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.โ
โHe makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.โ
โOn earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.โ
โHe sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."โ
โThere the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.โ
โYou broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.โ
โLet them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.โ
