Psalms 74:21
Do not let the oppressed turn back ashamed, || Let the poor and needy praise Your Name,
Literal Standard Version
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 Your plea, || Remember Your reproach from a fool all the day.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy is not forgotten forever, || [Nor] the hope of the humble lost for all time.
Psalms 35:10All my bones say, “YHWH, who is like You, || Delivering the poor from the [one] stronger than he, || And the poor and needy from his plunderer.”
Psalms 103:6YHWH is doing righteousness and judgments || For all the oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17Israel has been saved in YHWH, || A perpetual salvation! You are not ashamed nor confounded || For all ages of 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 →