Psalms 74:21
Do not allow your oppressed people to be disgraced; help those poor and needy people in order that they will again praise you [MTY].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 9:18But you will not forget those who are needy/poor; what they confidently expect will certainly happen.
Psalms 35:10With my whole inner being [SYN] I will say, “There is no one like Yahweh [RHQ]! No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people [RHQ]. No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”
Psalms 103:6Yahweh judges justly and ◄vindicates/does what is right for► all those who have been treated unfairly.
Isaiah 45:17But you, Yahweh, will rescue us, your Israeli people, and we will be free forever. Never again will we again be humiliated and disgraced.
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 →