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Psalms 74:20

18 Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

19 Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

21 Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
KJV
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
WEB
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
ASV
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
DARBY
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
BLB
Look to the covenant! For the dark places of the earth are filled [as] habitations of violence.
ÅB
Se til pakten! For landets mørke steder er fulle av volds boliger.
OTB
Tenk på pakten;
For de mørke stedene i landet er fulle av voldens tilholdssteder.
B1930
Se til pakten! For landets mørke steder er fulle av volds boliger.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 106:45

    And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

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  • Genesis 17:7–8

    I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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  • Psalms 89:34–36

    I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

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  • Psalms 89:28

    I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

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  • Psalms 105:8

    He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

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  • Jeremiah 33:20–26

    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

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  • Ephesians 4:17–18

    So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

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