Psalms 74:21

Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

In Context

20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

22Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:18The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say : Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

Psalms 103:6The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

Isaiah 45:17Israel is saved in the Lord with as eternal salvation: you shall not be con- founded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.

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 →

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