Psalms 74:15

Thou didst cleave fountain and stream: thou didst dry up ever-flowing rivers.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

In Context

14Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, and gavest them as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

16Thine is the day and thine is the night: it is thou who hast prepared the luminary and the sun.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:5And the Lord said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee some of the elders of Israel; and thy staff, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.

Numbers 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand, and he smote the rock with his staff twice: and there came out much water, and the congregation drank, together with their cattle.

Joshua 3:13And it shall come to pass, that as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, namely, the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up as a wall.

2 Kings 2:14And he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord the God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither; and Elisha' passed over.

Psalms 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out: they ran in the dry places like a river.

Isaiah 11:16And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall remain from Asshur, like as it was to Israel on the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:13-18

Acknowledgments of Divine Power. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the… Read the whole commentary →

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