12 And God 'is' my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea-'monster', Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters, 14 Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places. 15 Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings. 16 Thine 'is' the day, also Thine 'is' the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver—the sun. 17 Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.
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.