Psalms 74:20
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
2 Samuel 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
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 →