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Psalms 74:21

Poverty and the vulnerableSalvation

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

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

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.

23 Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

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BSB
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
KJV
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
WEB
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
ASV
Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
DARBY
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
BLB
Do not let the oppressed turn back, having been disgraced; let the afflicted and needy ones praise Your name.
ÅB
La ikke den undertrykte vende tilbake med skam, la den elendige og fattige love ditt navn!
OTB
Måtte de undertrykte ikke vende tilbake vanæret;
Måtte de elendige og de trengende prise ditt navn.
B1930
La ikke den undertrykte vende tilbake med skam, la den elendige og fattige love ditt navn!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 12:5

    “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

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  • Ezra 3:11

    And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.

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  • Psalms 35:10

    All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

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  • Psalms 9:18

    For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

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  • Psalms 103:6

    The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

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  • Isaiah 45:17

    But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

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  • Psalms 102:19–21

    For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

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  • Psalms 109:22

    For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

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