Psalms 74:20
Look unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of habitations of violence.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
21Oh let not the oppressed return confounded: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 24:6And Moses took the half of the blood, and put it in basins; and the [other] half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Think of thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; turn not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to its wickedness, nor to its sin:
2 Samuel 23:5Truly is not so my house with God? since he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, firm in all, and sure? yea, will he not cause to grow all my salvation, and all my desire?
Psalms 89:28(89:29) For evermore will I keep for him my kindness, and my covenant shall stand faithfully with him.
Psalms 89:39(89:40) Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned, down to the ground, his crown.
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 →