Psalms 74:15

What does Psalms 74:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 74:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

Context

v.14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

v.15This passage

v.16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 20:11

    And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

  • Habakkuk 3:9

    Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were asure word. [Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

  • Joshua 3:13

    And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

  • 2 Kings 2:14

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

  • Exodus 14:21

    And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • Joshua 2:10

    For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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