Toward Israel the nations were like leviathan, the fleeing and crooked serpent, and like the dragon in the sea. In His reaction to the nations’ excessive action on Israel (see note Isa. 26:131), Jehovah punished leviathan and slew the dragon in the sea.
Some MSS read, delight.
The grain here denotes the scattered people of Israel. The fulfillment of the prophecy in vv. 12-13, concerning the gathering of all the outcast, lost, and scattered Israelites back to the Holy Land, began with the return of the captives from Babylon; it is continuing today, and it will be fully accomplished at the time of the Lord’s second coming.
I.e., the Euphrates.
Matt. 24:31; cf. 1 Cor. 15:52
