Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
World English Bible
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In Context
19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
2 Samuel 23:5Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Psalms 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
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 →