Psalms 74:21
Do not let the oppressed return ashamed.Let the poor and needy praise your name.
New Heart English Bible
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,for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
22Arise, God! Plead your own cause.Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten,nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, "Lord, who is like you,who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him;yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
Psalms 103:6The Lord executes righteous acts,and justice for all who are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation.You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
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 →