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 how the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name! 19Do not hand the life of your dove over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard the lives of your oppressed people! Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules. 21Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name! 22Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!

Psalms 74:20 word by word

הַבֵּ֥ט לַבְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְא֣וֹת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Have respectנָבַטnâbaţ · to lookH5027
• unto the covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• for the darkמַחְשָׁךְmachshâk · darknessH4285
• places of the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• are fullמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• of the habitationsנָוָהnâ'âh · habitationH4999
• of crueltyחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555

Cross-references for Psalms 74:20

• Psalms 89:28I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.
• Psalms 105:8He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations –
• Psalms 106:45He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
• Genesis 17:7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.
• Leviticus 26:40However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
• Deuteronomy 9:27Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.
• 2 Samuel 23:5My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
• Jeremiah 33:20“I, Lord, make the following promise: ‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant
• Luke 1:72He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant –
• Hebrews 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
• Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
• Romans 1:29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
• Ephesians 4:17So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Psalms 5:8Lord, lead me in your righteousness because of those who wait to ambush me, remove the obstacles in the way in which you are guiding me!
• Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives!

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

Topics related to Psalms 74:20

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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