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 mocked, Adonai, and how foolish people despised Your Name. 19Do not deliver Your turtledove’s soul to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever. Look upon the covenant— for haunts of violence fill the dark places of earth. 21Do not let the oppressed turn back in shame. But let the poor and needy praise Your Name. 22Rise up O God, and defend Your cause. Remember how the fool mocks You all day.

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 also will set him as firstborn— the highest of the kings of earth.
• Psalms 105:8He remembers His covenant forever— the word He commanded for a thousand generations—
• Psalms 106:45remembered His covenant to them, and relented in the greatness of His mercy.
• Genesis 17:7Yes, I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, in order to be your God and your seed’s God after you.
• Exodus 24:6Then Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins and the other half he poured out against the altar.
• Leviticus 26:40“But if they confess their iniquity and that of their fathers, in the treachery they committed against Me, and how they walked contrary to Me
• Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people or to their wickedness or their sin.
• 2 Samuel 23:5Is it not true that my house is with God? For He made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered and secured in all things. Will He not make all my salvation and every desire come to fruition?
• Jeremiah 33:20thus says Adonai: “If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night would not be at in their appointed time,
• Luke 1:72So He shows mercy to our fathers and remembers His holy covenant,
• Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Adonai. I will put My Torah into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write it. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
• Deuteronomy 12:31You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God! For every abomination of Adonai, which He hates, they have done to their gods—they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
• Romans 1:29They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,
• Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.
• Psalms 5:8But because of your great lovingkindness, I will enter Your House. I will bow toward Your holy Temple, in awe of You.
• Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers, instruments 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

• Fool
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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