Psalms 74:21
Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 reproacheth thee all the day.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?
Psalms 103:6Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17But Israel shall be saved by Jehovah 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 →