Psalms 74:20
Look to the sleek ones – how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
19Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever.
21O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after your throughout their generations, an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your descendants after you.
Psalms 89:28“My love will I keep for him ever, my covenant with him shall stand fast.
Psalms 89:39You have spurned the covenant with your servant, and his sacred crown dashed to the ground.
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 →