Psalms 74:15

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - Thou didst cause the water of the fountain to break forth by cleaving-referring to ; ; . THOU DRIEDST UP MIGHTY RIVERS - as the Jordan (). Not easily dried up: never so by the sun. The Chaldaic adds to the Jordan Arnon and Jabbok. implies that some miracle was performed at Arnon similar to that at the Jordan (cf. ). The "book of the wars of the Lord" may h...

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. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes....

Verse Psalms 74:15. _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?...

THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - That is, the source of the streams and the streams themselves. The main allusion is probably to the Jordan, and the idea is, that God had, as it were, divided all the waters, or prevented any obstruction to his people from the river in any respect; as if the waters in the very springs and fountains, and the waters in the channel of the river flowing from those springs and fountains, had been so restrained and divided that there was a safe passage through them. Joshua 3:14. THOU DRIEDST UP MIGHTY RIVERS - Margin, “rivers of strength.” The Hebrew - איתן _'êythân_ - (compare Deuteronomy 21:4;...

EXPOSITION "THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). The temple is violated (Psalms 74:3); its carved work is ruthlessly cut down (Psalms 74:6); the aid of fire has been called in to destroy it, and its walls are cast down to the ground (Psalms 74:7). Nor has Jerusalem alone suffered. The object has been to "make havoc" of Israel "altogether;" and the enemy have spread themselves, and "burnt up all the houses of God in the land" (Psalms 74:8). The pr

THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD,.... That is, the rocks at Horeb and at Kadesh, from whence water flowed as out of a fountain, and became a flood, whereby the people of Israel were supplied with water in the wilderness, and also their beasts; and from this instance it may be concluded that God will not leave his people, nor suffer them to want, but will supply all their need while they are in the wilderness, and will open fountains and rivers for them, Isaiah 41:17 he himself is a fountain of living water; Christ is the fountain of gardens, and the Spirit and his grace a well of living water springing up unto everlasting life: THOU DRIEDST UP MIGHTY RIVERS; the river of Jordan, called "mighty", as Kimchi says, because by its strength it overflowed all its banks and "rivers", and because other rivers flowed into it; this was dried up, or way was m

Psalms 74 The Enemy in the Sanctuary _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 74:1)_ 2. The work of the enemy (Psalms 74:4) 3. Intercession for intervention (Psalms 74:10) This is a Psalm for instruction, a Maschil Psalm. The enemy is seen in the sanctuary. This has been applied to the defilement of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, but prophetically it rather refers to that end-time, when the enemy will defile the temple with the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15). Then the remnant loving the sanctuary tell

LXXIV. The date may be fixed with certainty and that within narrow limits. The Jews are suffering extreme distress, but apparently by no fault of their own, for there is no confession of sin. The persecution is a religious one, since we are told repeatedly (Psalms 74:10; Psalms 74:18; Psalms 74:22) that their foes blaspheme God. Synagogues, unknown in pre-exilic times, exist throughout the land. Calamities, to some extent similar, existed in 586 B.C. when the Babylonians took Jerusalem and burned down the Temple. But if the writer had lived in the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, he could not have complained that no prophet had arisen (Psalms 74:9

CLEAVE. sunder, open. passage. Hebrew. _baka'._ FOUNTAIN. Compare Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for the rook from which the water flowed. flood. Compare Joshua 3:13....

Yet God's mighty works of Redemption and Creation attest His power to interpose for the deliverance of His people. Cp. Psalms 77:10 ff....