Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.
Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
Psalms — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
1. O God! why hast thou east us off for ever? If this complaint was written when the people were captives in Babylon, although Jeremiah had assigned the 70th year of their captivity as the period of their deliverance, it is not wonderful that waiting so long was to them…