“ Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mightye rivers. ”
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 wer...
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 p...
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....
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. Thou didst cleave the fountain - Thou didst cleave the rock in the wilderness, of which all the congregation drank. Thou...
Mighty rivers— Perpetual springs. Schultens. Psalms 74:16 . The light ] The luminary, or receptacle of light, according to the original, The word מאור maour is collective, and means all t...
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 cleavi...
Psalms 74, 79 seem to reflect the same historical situation, and are usually ascribed to the same author. Both were written in a time of national calamity, when the Temple was profaned ( Psalms 74 ),...
(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed Israelites to God ( Exodus 5:22 ), so this poet carries to the same God th...
Psalms 74:1-23 Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion ( Psalms 79:1-13 )-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecutio...
“Plead Thine Own Cause, O God” Psalms 74:12-23 Yet! Psalms 74:12 , r.v. There is always some compensating and consolatory thought. God is in the background of our thought. Not only the King,...
This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. Hardly a gleam of light is found throughout. The singer sits in the midst of national desolation and pours out his soul to God in passionate...
The Holy Ghost evidently intended by these sweet and precious verses, to teach the church, in all ages, how to adopt such arguments, in all our dealings with God, when under trial. The best thing I c...
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 sup...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. Ver. 15. Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood ] i.e. Fontium et torrentium scatebras et latebras, thou dids...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood That is, thou didst, by cleaving the rock, make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry...
Acknowledgments of Divine Power. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood, i.e. thou didst by cleaving the rock make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry deser...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1 . “But here we cannot have the least idea of the author...
Title. Maschil of Asaph; that is, instruction, as Psalms 32 . The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This mournful ode is also alleged to have been written...
O God, why hast Thou cast us off for ever? why doth Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture? The wail and prayer of a true patriot I. The wail ( Psalms 74:1-17 ). 1. Some communi...
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 carve...
Prayer for the Preservation of the Church. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would befall the Church of God, in the Old Testament as...
2 Kings 2:14 ; 2 Kings 2:8 ; Exodus 17:5 ; Exodus 17:6 ; Habakkuk 3:9 ; Isaiah 11:16 ; Isaiah 44:27 ; Isaiah 48:21 ; Joshua 3:13-17 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Psalms 105:41 ; Revelation 16:12
The flood — Thou didst by cleaving the rock, make a fountain and a stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry deserts. Driedst — Jordan and the Red Sea; for the sea itse...