Psalms 74:21
Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
20Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
22Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the poore shall not bee alway forgotten: the hope of the afflicted shall not perish for euer.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!
Psalms 103:6The Lord executeth righteousnes and iudgement to all that are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17But Israel shall be saued in the Lord, with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded worlde without ende.
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 →