Psalms 74:21
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
In Context
22Arise, O God, plead yours own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
Cross References
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?
Psalms 103:6The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Isaiah 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: all of you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
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 →