Psalms 74:21
O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
Psalms 103:6LORD executes righteous acts, and judgments for all who are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17[But] Israel shall be saved by LORD with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.
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 →