Psalms 74:20
Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 24:6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their profaneness, nor to their sin,
2 Samuel 23:5Truly my house is not so with God. Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, though he does not make it to grow.
Psalms 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:39Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:19-23
Earnest Supplications; Pleading with God. 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord , and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:… Read the whole commentary →