15 It was you who opened up springs and streams; you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
15 You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
15 With your finger you opened up springs and creeks, and dried up the wild floodwaters.
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.
15 You caused the springs and streams to gush forth, and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 74:15
Commentary on Psalm 74:12-17
(Read Psalm 74:12-17)
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.