Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 68:10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
Psalms 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Song of Solomon 4:1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
Isaiah 60:8“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Matthew 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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 →