Psalms 74:15
13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- KJV
- Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- WEB
- You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
- ASV
- Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- DARBY
- *Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
- BLB
- You burst open spring and stream; You dried up the enduring rivers.
- ÅB
- Du lot kilde og bekk bryte fram, du uttørket evige strømmer.
- OTB
- Du åpnet kilder og strømmer;
Du tørket opp evige bekker. - B1930
- Du lot kilde og bekk bryte frem, du uttørket evige strømmer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 20:11
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
Read in contextExodus 17:5–6
And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Read in contextJoshua 3:13–17
When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
Read in contextPsalms 105:41
He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:21
They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
Read in contextJoshua 2:10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:27
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Read in contextExodus 14:21–22
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
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