Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 74:14

"Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness." — Psalms 74:14 (ASV)

Leviathan. —See last note.

And gave him ... —The crocodile was eaten by the people of Elephantine (Herodotus 2.69), but there is no allusion here to that custom, nor to the Ichthyophagi mentioned by Agatharchides, nor to the Ethiopians (as in the Septuagint). It is the Egyptian corpses thrown up by the Red Sea that are to be devoured by the “wild beasts,” called here “people,” as the ants and conies are (Proverbs 30:25–26).