Psalms 74:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

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  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 49:5-7 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. 6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. 7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
  • Exod 24:6-8 : 6 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar. 7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws. 8 Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.
  • Lev 26:40-45 : 40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; 41 So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins, 42 Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land. 43 And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws. 44 But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God. 45 And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
  • Deut 9:27 : 27 Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
  • Ps 5:8 : 8 Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.
  • Ps 89:28 : 28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
  • Ps 89:34-36 : 34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. 35 I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. 36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
  • Ps 105:8 : 8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times, 21 Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants. 22 As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants. 23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation. 25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me, 26 Then I will give up caring for 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 let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word, 73 The oath which he made to Abraham, our father, 74 That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship, 75 In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
  • Eph 4:17-18 : 17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit, 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

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    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

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    21 O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

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  • Job 22:10-11
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  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Ps 104:20
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    20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

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    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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  • Jer 18:22
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    22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

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    4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.

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    23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

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