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Psalms 74:20

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.

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: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 106:45

    And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

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  • Genesis 17:7–8

    And 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.

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  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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  • Psalms 89:34–36

    My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

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  • Psalms 89:28

    My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

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  • Psalms 105:8

    He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

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  • Jeremiah 33:20–26

    Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

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  • Ephesians 4:17–18

    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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