Psalms 74:21
Oh let not the oppressed return confounded: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
20Look unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of habitations of violence.
22Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember thy defiance from the worthless fool all the day.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18(9:19) For not everlastingly shall the needy be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 35:10All my bones will say, Lord, 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 103:6The Lord executeth righteousness, and justice for all that are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17[But] Israel shall be helped by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and not be confounded unto all eternity.
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 →