New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 74:20
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, Lord, that the enemy has taunted You, And a foolish people has treated Your name disrespectfully. 19Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild animal; Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever. Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence. 21May the oppressed person not return dishonored; May the afflicted and the needy praise Your name. 22Arise, God, and plead Your own cause; Remember how the foolish person taunts You all day long.
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הַבֵּ֥ט לַבְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְא֣וֹת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 74:20
- Psalms 89:28I will maintain My favor for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
- Psalms 105:8He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,
- Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His mercy.
- Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
- Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Leviticus 26:40‘But if they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me--
- Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn Your attention to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or their sin.
- 2 Samuel 23:5Is my house not indeed so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Properly ordered in all things, and secured; For will He not indeed make All my salvation and all my delight grow?
- Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not occur at their proper time,
- Luke 1:72To show mercy to our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant,
- Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel After those days, declares the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people.
- Deuteronomy 12:31You shall not behave this way toward the Lord your God, because every abominable act which the Lord hates, they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods.
- Romans 1:29people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
- Ephesians 4:17So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their minds,
- Psalms 5:8Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; Make Your way straight before me.
- Genesis 49:5“Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.
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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