Psalms 74:19
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
Psalms 68:10Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
Psalms 72:2May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
Song of Solomon 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
Isaiah 60:8Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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 →