New Living Translation
Psalms 74:15
15You caused the springs and streams to gush forth, and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
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 split the sea by your strength and smashed the heads of the sea monsters. 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan and let the desert animals eat him. You caused the springs and streams to gush forth, and you dried up rivers that never run dry. 16Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun. 17You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.
Read all of Psalms 74Psalms 74:15 word by word
אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָנָ֑חַל אַתָּ֥ה ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּ נַהֲר֥וֹת אֵיתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 74:15
- Psalms 105:41He split open a rock, and water gushed out to form a river through the dry wasteland.
- Exodus 17:5The Lord said to Moses, “Walk out in front of the people. Take your staff, the one you used when you struck the water of the Nile, and call some of the elders of Israel to join you.
- Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.
- Isaiah 48:21They were not thirsty when he led them through the desert. He divided the rock, and water gushed out for them to drink.
- Joshua 3:13The priests will carry the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth. As soon as their feet touch the water, the flow of water will be cut off upstream, and the river will stand up like a wall.”
- 2 Kings 2:8Then Elijah folded his cloak together and struck the water with it. The river divided, and the two of them went across on dry ground!
- Isaiah 11:16He will make a highway for the remnant of his people, the remnant coming from Assyria, just as he did for Israel long ago when they returned from Egypt.
- Isaiah 44:27When I speak to the rivers and say, ‘Dry up!’ they will be dry.
- Habakkuk 3:9You brandished your bow and your quiver of arrows. You split open the earth with flowing rivers.
- Revelation 16:12Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance.
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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