KJV King James Version
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Psalm 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
WEB World English Bible
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
ASV American Standard Version
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
Surrounding context — Psalm 74
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
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Psalm 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.Genesis 17:7-8And 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.Hebrews 8:10For 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:Jeremiah 33:20-26Thus 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;Psalm 89:28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.Psalm 89:34-36My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.Psalm 105:8He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations.Ephesians 4:17-18This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,Deuteronomy 12:31Thou 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.Leviticus 26:40-45If 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;Psalm 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.Psalm 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.Deuteronomy 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:Exodus 24:6-8And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.Luke 1:72-75To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;Romans 1:29-31Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,Genesis 49:5-7Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.2 Samuel 23:5Although 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.
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