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Psalm 74:15

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74:15You broke open the spring and the stream;32

you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.33

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Footnotes

  1. 32 You broke open the spring and the stream. Perhaps this alludes to the way in which God provided water for the Israelites as they traveled in the wilderness following the exodus (see Ps 78:15–16, 20; 105:41).
  2. 33 Perpetually flowing rivers are rivers that contain water year round, unlike the seasonal streams that flow only during the rainy season. Perhaps the psalmist here alludes to the drying up of the Jordan River when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan under Joshua (see Josh 3–4).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You split open springs and brooks;

you dried up ever-flowing streams.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It was you who opened up springs and streams;

you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You opened up springs and streams;

you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

NLTNew Living Translation

You caused the springs and streams to gush forth,

and you dried up rivers that never run dry.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You split open spring and wadi.

You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:

Thou driedst up mighty rivers.