Psalms 74:20

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Consider the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are filled with the dens of violence.

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  • Ps 106:45 : 45 He remembered His covenant with them and relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 49:5-7 : 5 'Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.' 6 'Let me not enter their council; let me not join their assembly, for in their anger they killed men, and in their self-will they hamstrung oxen.' 7 'Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.'
  • Exod 24:6-8 : 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey." 8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."
  • Lev 26:40-45 : 40 But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness with which they were unfaithful to me, and also how they walked contrary to me— 41 so that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their punishment for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their punishment for their iniquity, because they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. 45 For their sake, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God: I am the LORD.
  • Deut 9:27 : 27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not focus on the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness, or their sin.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.
  • Ps 5:8 : 8 But as for me, through the abundance of Your steadfast love, I will enter Your house. I will bow in awe toward Your holy temple.
  • Ps 89:28 : 28 I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
  • Ps 89:34-36 : 34 But I will not remove my steadfast love from him, nor will I betray my faithfulness. 35 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that has gone out of my lips. 36 Once I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David:
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 But you have rejected and spurned; you have been furious with your anointed one.
  • Ps 105:8 : 8 He remembers His covenant forever, the word He commanded for a thousand generations.
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 This is what the Lord says: If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night would not come at their appointed time, 21 then my covenant with David my servant and my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me could also be broken, so that David would no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. 22 Just as the stars in the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me. 23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation. 25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered His holy covenant— 73 the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us: 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve Him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
  • Eph 4:17-18 : 17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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  • Ps 74:18-19
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    18Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has insulted You, and a foolish people has despised Your name.

    19Do not give the life of Your turtledove to the wild beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted ones forever.

  • 22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

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

  • 5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Job 22:10-11
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    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • 19Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from Your path.

  • 22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • 20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out.

  • 17Terror, pit, and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

  • 16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • 3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • 6They dwell in the dry streambeds, in holes in the ground, and among the rocks.

  • 4Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

  • 4They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 10The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

  • 10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • 22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

  • 6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Ps 69:23-25
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    23Let their table before them become a snare, and their security a trap.

    24Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their bodies always shake and tremble.

    25Pour out your indignation on them, and let your fierce anger overtake them.

  • 15Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.

  • 37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • 12Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

  • 20Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—one that brings about trouble under the guise of law?

  • 5The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

  • 20God will hear and humble them—He who is enthroned from of old—Selah. They do not change and do not fear God.

  • 8He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he murders the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless.

  • 22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • 17The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of beasts will terrify you, because of human bloodshed and violence against the land, the city, and all who live in it.

  • 4How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • 14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • 4They sharpen their tongues like serpents; the venom of vipers is under their lips. Selah.

  • 16Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.

  • 14They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • 10He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong claws.

  • 21For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

  • 17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • 8The highways are deserted; travelers have ceased. Covenants are broken, cities are despised, and no one cares about humanity.

  • 3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • 21They will go into the crevices of the rocks and the clefts of the crags, hiding from the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to terrify the earth.

  • 23Prepare chains, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

  • 2Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; protect my life from the fear of the enemy.

  • 14But You have seen; for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it by Your hand. The helpless entrusts themselves to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • 7For they have devoured Jacob and ruined his dwelling place.