Psalms 74:15

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

cleave . sunder, open. passage. Hebrew. baka'. fountain. Compare Exodus 17:6 ; Numbers 20:11 . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect)...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 wilde...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Mighty rivers— Perpetual springs. Schultens. Psalms 74:16 . The light ] The luminary, or receptacle of light, according to the original, Th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood - Thou didst cause...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 cal...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cleave the fountain ] i.e. cleave the rock from which the fountain flowed: see Exodus 17:6 ; Numbers 20:8 . Rivers ] the Jordan: Joshua 3:13 ;...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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 ( Exod...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou didst cleave... — Another pregnant expression for “thou didst cleave the rock, and a fountain came forth.” Flood. — Better, brook. Heb.,...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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 t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 deso...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 deali...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 bec...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Fonti...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 i...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acknowledgments of Divine Power. 12 For God is my King of old, work...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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, fo...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1 . “But...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. Maschil of Asaph; that is, instruction, as Psalms 32 . The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION " THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" ( Psalms 74:3 )....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for the Preservation of the Church. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood, in giving the Israelites water out of the rock, Exodus 17:5 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Thou driedst up mighty...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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....

¹⁵ Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mightye rivers.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 74:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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