Psalms 74 · Verse 15

Psalms 74:15

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms 74:15, King James Version

Psalms 74:15 in other translations

BSBYou broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
WEBYou opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
ASVThou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
YLTThou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.
DARBYThou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
BBEYou made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.
WebsterThou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers.

What does Psalms 74:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 74:13-15

13-15. 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Thou 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?

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 74:12-17

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…

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Psalms 74:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַתָּ֣ה'a.TahyouH859
בָ֭קַעְתָּVa.ka'.tayou broke openH1234
מַעְיָ֣ןma'.Yana springH4599
וָנָ֑חַלva.Na.chaland a torrentH5158
אַתָּ֥ה'a.TahyouH859
ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּho.Vash.tayou dried upH3001
נַהֲר֥וֹתna.ha.Rotrivers ofH5104
אֵיתָֽן\׃'ei.Tanever-flowingH386

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 74:15

  • Numbers 20:11

    And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

  • Exodus 17:5-6

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Joshua 3:13-17

    And it shall come to pass, 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 Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. …

  • Psalms 105:41

    He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

  • Isaiah 48:21

    And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Joshua 2:10

    For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

  • Isaiah 44:27

    That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

  • Exodus 14:21-22

    And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

  • Isaiah 11:16

    And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Habakkuk 3:9

    Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

  • 2 Kings 2:8

    And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

  • 2 Kings 2:14

    And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
cleave.
105:41; Ex 17:5,6; Nu 20:11; Isa 48:21
flood.
Jos 3:13-17; 2Ki 2:8,14; Isa 11:16; 44:27; Hab 3:9; *marg:
Re 16:12
mighty rivers. Heb. rivers of strength.

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Context

  • Psalms 74:14

    Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

  • Psalms 74:15

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

  • Psalms 74:16

    The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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Psalms 74:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tú abriste fuente y río; tú secaste ríos impetuosos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu as fait sortir la source et le torrent; tu as séché les grosses rivières.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du ließest Quell und Bach hervorbrechen, immerfließende Ströme trocknetest du aus.