Psalms 74:21
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
Psalms 103:6The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
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 →