Psalms 74:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

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  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 49:5-7 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked [ an ox. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
  • Exod 24:6-8 : 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
  • Lev 26:40-45 : 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me, 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; 42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; 45 but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.
  • Deut 9:27 : 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.
  • Ps 5:8 : 8 Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.
  • Ps 89:28 : 28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
  • Ps 89:34-36 : 34 My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: 36 His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
  • Ps 105:8 : 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. 23 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father, 74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Eph 4:17-18 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
  • Heb 8:10 : 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 on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

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  • Ps 74:18-19
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    18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

    19Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

  • 22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

  • 21Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

  • 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

  • Job 22:10-11
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    10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,

    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • 20Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

  • 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

  • 16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

  • 4Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

  • 4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • 10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  • 10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

  • 22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Ps 69:23-25
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    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

  • 15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

  • 37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

  • 12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

  • 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

  • 20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

  • 5The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

  • 20He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.

  • 8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

  • 22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • 17For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

  • 4Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

  • 16Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them] .

  • 14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • 10He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

  • 21Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

  • 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

  • 8The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

  • 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

  • 23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

  • 2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

  • 14Thou hast seen [it] ; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

  • 7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.