God’s Word Translation
Psalms 74:15
15You opened the springs and brooks. You dried up the 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 stirred up the sea with your own strength. You smashed the heads of sea monsters in the water. 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave them to the creatures of the desert for food. You opened the springs and brooks. You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16The day and the night are yours. You set the moon and the sun in their places. 17You determined all the boundaries of the earth. You created 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 a rock, and water gushed and flowed like a river through the dry places.
- Exodus 17:5The Lord answered Moses, “Bring some of the leaders of Israel with you, and go to where the people can see you. Take the staff you used to strike the Nile River.
- Numbers 20:11Moses raised his hand and hit the rock twice with the staff. Water came pouring out, and all the people and their animals drank.
- Isaiah 48:21They weren’t thirsty when he led them through the deserts. He made water flow from a rock for them. He split a rock, and water gushed out.
- Joshua 3:13The priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, will stand in the water of the Jordan. Then the water flowing from upstream will stop and stand up like a dam.”
- 2 Kings 2:8Elijah took his coat, rolled it up, and struck the water with it. The water divided to their left and their right, and the two men crossed ⌞the river⌟ on dry ground.
- Isaiah 11:16There will be a highway for the remaining few of his people left in Assyria like there was for Israel when it came out of Egypt.
- Isaiah 44:27He says to the deep water, “Dry up.” So I will dry up your rivers.
- Habakkuk 3:9You get your bow ready for action, for the arrows ⌞you⌟ promised. Selah You split the land with rivers.
- Revelation 16:12The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. The water in the river dried up to make a road for 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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