Psalms 74:20
Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 24:6Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the rest he poured upon the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:
2 Samuel 23:5Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.
Psalms 89:28And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89:39But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed.
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 →