12 Yet God is my King of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 You divided the sea by your strength.
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. 14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. 15 You opened up spring and stream.
You dried up mighty rivers. 16 The day is yours, the night is also yours.
You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
You have made summer and winter.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 74:12-17
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.