Psalms 74:15

Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.

16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:5And ye Lord answered to Moses, Goe before the people, and take with thee of the Elders of Israel: and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the riuer, take in thine hand, and go:

Numbers 20:11Then Moses lift vp his hande, and with his rod he smote the rocke twise, and the water came out aboundantly: so the Congregation, and their beastes dranke.

Joshua 3:13And assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes (that beare the Arke of the Lord God the Lord of all the worlde) shall stay in the waters of Iorden, the waters of Iorden shall be cut off: for the waters that come from aboue, shall stande still vpon an heape.

2 Kings 2:14After, he tooke the cloke of Eliiah, that fell from him, and smote the waters, and sayde, Where is the Lord God of Eliiah? And so he also, after he had striken the waters, so that they were deuided this way and that way, went ouer, euen Elisha.

Psalms 105:41He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.

Isaiah 11:16And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of Asshur, like as it was vnto Israel in the day that he came vp 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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