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“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
“Can you put a rope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
“Will he make many supplications to you,
Or will he speak to you soft words?
“Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?
“Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?
“Will the traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?
“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; you will not do it again!
“Behold, your expectation is false;
Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
“No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?
“Who has given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.
“Who can strip off his outer armor?
Who can come within his double mail?
“Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.
“His strong scales are his pride,
Shut up as with a tight seal.
“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
“They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.
“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
“In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.
“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.
“His heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone.
“When he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
“He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
“Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
“His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
“He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
“Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
“Nothing on earth is like him,
One made without fear.
“He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.”
You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain;
You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
There the ships move along,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.
Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces,
Who pierced the dragon?
“Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,
That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
“I will put hooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.
“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;
You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
“Then you kept in existence two living creatures; the one you called Behemoth and the name of the other Leviathan. And you separated one from the other, for the seventh part where the water had been gathered together could not hold them both. And you gave Behemoth one of the parts that had been dried up on the third day, to live in it, where there are a thousand mountains; but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, the watery part; and you have kept them to be eaten by whom you wish, and when you wish.
καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν ἐπʼ οἶκον ἀνδρὸς ἐν εὐσταθίᾳ, ὡς ὄφις,
διαλῦσαι σοφίαν ἀλλήλων ἐν λόγοις παρανόμων.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.
And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war,
and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.
But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth.
So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.
And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
Γαβριήλ, ὁ εἷς τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ παραδείσου καὶ τῶν δρακόντων καὶ χερουβείν. ἀρχαγγέλων ὀνόματα ἑπτά.
Γαβριήλ, ὁ εἷς τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ παραδείσου καὶ τῶν δρακόντων καὶ χερουβείν. ἀρχαγγέλων ὀνόματα ἑπτά.