Psalms 74:21

Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

In Context

20Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

22Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:18For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

Psalms 35:10All my bones say, 'Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

Psalms 103:6Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.

Isaiah 45:17Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

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 →

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