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Psalms 74:15
15You broke open fountains and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Psalms 74:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- New International Version (NIV)It was you who opened up springs and streams; you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.
Context of Psalms 74:15
13You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. You broke open fountains and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers. 16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun. 17You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter.
Read all of Psalms 74Psalms 74:15 word by word
אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָנָ֑חַל אַתָּ֥ה ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּ נַהֲר֥וֹת אֵיתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 74:15
- Psalms 105:41He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.
- Exodus 17:5Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
- Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand [in anger] and with his rod he struck the rock twice [instead of speaking to the rock as the Lord had commanded]. And the water poured out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank [fresh water].
- Isaiah 48:21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He made the waters flow out of the rock for them; He split the rock and the waters flowed.
- Joshua 3:13When the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, [come to] rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing down from above will be cut off, and they will stand in one mass [of water].”
- 2 Kings 2:8And Elijah took his mantle (coat) and rolled it up and struck the waters, and they were divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
- Isaiah 11:16And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 44:27It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’ And I will make your rivers dry.
- Habakkuk 3:9Your bow was made bare; The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah (pause, calmly think of that). You split the earth with rivers [bringing waters to dry places].
- Revelation 16:12Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for [the coming of] the kings from the east.
Commentaries on Psalms 74:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Thou didst cleave the fountain - Thou didst cleave the rock in the wilderness, of which all the congregation drank. Thou driedst up mighty rivers - Does not this refer to the cutting off the waters of the Jordan, so that the people passed over dryshod?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood - That is, the source of the streams and the streams themselves. The main allusion is probably to the Jordan, and the idea is, that God had, as it were, divided all the waters, or prevented any obstruction to his people from the river in any respect; as if the waters in the very springs and fountains, and the waters in the channel of the river flowing from those springs and fountains, had been so restrained and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-17Verses 12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15ever-flowing rivers: God gave water in the desert to his people (see Psalm 68:8–9; Exodus 17:6). He dried up the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21) and the Jordan River (Joshua 3:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1513-15. Examples of the "salvation wrought" are cited. divide the sea--that is, Red Sea. brakest ... waters--Pharaoh and his host (compare Is 51:9, 10; Eze 29:3, 4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 74
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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