Psalm 74:15 “You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowi…”

Psalm 74:15

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“cleave”

Numbers 20:11 Psalm 105:41 Isaiah 48:21 Exodus 17:5 Exodus 17:6

Numbers 20:11 · BSB

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.

Psalm 105:41 · BSB

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

Isaiah 48:21 · BSB

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.

Exodus 17:5 · BSB

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.

Exodus 17:6 · BSB

Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

“flood”

Joshua 3:13–17 Isaiah 44:27 2 Kings 2:8 2 Kings 2:14 Isaiah 11:16 Habakkuk 3:9

Joshua 3:13–17 · BSB

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.”

Isaiah 44:27 · BSB

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

2 Kings 2:8 · BSB

And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

2 Kings 2:14 · BSB

Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elis…

Isaiah 11:16 · BSB

There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Habakkuk 3:9 · BSB

You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

Also

Joshua 2:10 Psalm 78:15 Exodus 14:21–22

Joshua 2:10 · BSB

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.

Psalm 78:15 · BSB

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Exodus 14:21–22 · BSB

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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

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