Psalms 74:21
Don’t let the oppressed teshuvah ·completely return· ashamed. 2 Let the poor and needy praise your name. 1
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In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
20Honor your covenant, 2 for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. 1
22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. 2 Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. 1
Cross References
Psalms 9:18כּ For the needy shall not always be forgotten, 2 nor the hope of the poor perish forever. 1
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, “ Adonai, who is like you, 2 who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; 2 yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?” 1
Psalms 103:6Adonai executes righteous acts, 2 and mishpat ·justice· for all who are oppressed. 1
Isaiah 45:17Israel [God prevails] will be saved by Adonai with an everlasting salvation. 2 You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. 1
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 →