Psalms 74:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 ¶ 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. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, 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; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 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 basons; 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 the LORD hath said 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 the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
  • Lev 26:40-45 : 40 ¶ If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts 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 of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD 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 heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD.
  • 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 the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.
  • Ps 5:8 : 8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
  • Ps 89:28 : 28 My mercy 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 that 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 made void 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 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; 21 [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should 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 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
  • Eph 4:17-18 : 17 ¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness 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 write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 74:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18¶ Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

    19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

  • Job 10:22
    71%

    22A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

  • Ps 74:21
    71%

    21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

  • Job 3:5
    70%

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Job 22:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

    11Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Ps 44:19
    70%

    19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Isa 8:22
    69%

    22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.

  • Ps 104:20
    69%

    20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].

  • Isa 24:17
    69%

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

  • Jer 13:16
    69%

    16Give glory to the LORD 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.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 30:6
    69%

    6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

  • Ps 82:4
    69%

    4Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.

  • Job 24:4
    69%

    4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Prov 12:10
    68%

    10¶ A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.

  • Ps 107:10
    68%

    10¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;

  • Jer 18:22
    68%

    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.

  • Lam 3:6
    68%

    6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

  • Ps 69:23-25
    3 verses
    68%

    23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

  • Prov 24:15
    68%

    15¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Jer 25:37
    68%

    37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Ps 139:12
    68%

    12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

  • Ps 88:12
    68%

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

  • Ps 94:20
    68%

    20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

  • Isa 24:5
    68%

    5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

  • Ps 55:20
    68%

    20He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

  • Ps 10:8
    68%

    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 poor.

  • Job 34:22
    68%

    22[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Hab 2:17
    68%

    17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

  • Jer 12:4
    68%

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

  • Ps 37:14
    68%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • Ps 140:4
    67%

    4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

  • Ps 109:16
    67%

    16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

  • Job 5:14
    67%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Ps 10:10
    67%

    10He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • Jer 14:21
    67%

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

  • Job 36:17
    67%

    17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

  • Isa 33:8
    67%

    8The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

  • Job 10:3
    67%

    3[Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • Isa 2:21
    67%

    21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • Ezek 7:23
    67%

    23¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

  • Ps 64:2
    67%

    2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

  • Ps 10:14
    67%

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

  • Ps 79:7
    67%

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.