Psalms 74:15

It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

14It was you who did crush many-headed Leviathan, and give him as food to the beasts of the wilderness.

16Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:13Whenever the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the water of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be stopped. The waters which are flowing down, they will be dammed up.”

Psalms 105:41He opened the rock; waters gushed: in the desert they ran like a river.

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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