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Psalms 74:20
20Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Psalms 74:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- New International Version (NIV)Have regard for your covenant, because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Context of Psalms 74:20
18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. 19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. 21Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. 22Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
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הַבֵּ֥ט לַבְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְא֣וֹת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 74:20
- Psalms 89:28My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;
- Psalms 105:8He is ever mindful of his covenant, — the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, —
- Psalms 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
- Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Exodus 24:6And Moses took half the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Leviticus 26:40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
- Deuteronomy 9:27Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin;
- 2 Samuel 23:5Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.
- Jeremiah 33:20Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant [in respect] of the day, and my covenant [in respect] of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
- Luke 1:72to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,
- Hebrews 8:10Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
- Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every [thing that is] abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods.
- Romans 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
- Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,
- Psalms 5:8Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.
- Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
Commentaries on Psalms 74:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Have respect unto the covenant - לברית הבט habbet labberith . Pay attention to the covenant sacrifice; to that offered by Abraham, Genesis 15:9, etc., when the contracting parties, God and Abram, passed through between the separated parts of the covenant sacrifice. An indisputable type of Jesus Christ; and of God and man meeting in his sacrificed humanity. The dark places of the earth - The caves, dens, woods, etc., of the land are full of robbers…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Have respect unto the covenant - The covenant which thou hast made with thy people, promising, on thy part, to protect them, and to be their God. Compare Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:2; Deuteronomy 26:18-19. The prayer here is, that God would remember, in the day of national calamity, the solemn promise implied in that covenant, and that he would interpose to save his people. Compare Genesis 9:15; Leviticus 26:42; Ezekiel 16:60; Luke 1:72. This may be…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-23Verses 18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten the dark nations of the earth; and to rescue his people, that the poor and needy may praise his name. Blessed Saviour, thou art the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Make thy people more than conquerors. Be thou, Lord, all in all to them in every…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-23The poet urges God to act.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. And the prevalence of injustice in heathen lands is a reason for invoking God's regard to His promise (compare Nu 14:21; Psa 7:16; 18:48).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 74
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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