Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
King James Version
In Context
21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 24:6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
2 Samuel 23:5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Psalms 89:28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
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 →