Psalms 74:21
O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
20Look to the sleek ones – how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.
22Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy will not be always forgotten, nor the hope of the helpless be lost forever.
Psalms 35:10and all my being will say, “Who, O Lord, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those who despoil them?”
Psalms 103:6The Lord executes justice – and right for all who are wronged.
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 →