Psalm 74:20 “Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of…”

Psalm 74:20

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.

Darby Translation

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

Young's Literal Translation

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“Have”

Psalm 106:45 Hebrews 8:10 Psalm 89:28 Psalm 89:34–36 Psalm 105:8 Jeremiah 33:20–26

Psalm 106:45 · BSB

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

Hebrews 8:10 · BSB

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Psalm 89:28 · BSB

I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Psalm 89:34–36 · BSB

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Psalm 105:8 · BSB

He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

Jeremiah 33:20–26 · BSB

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

“the dark”

Deuteronomy 12:31 Romans 1:29–31 Ephesians 4:17 Ephesians 4:18

Deuteronomy 12:31 · BSB

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Romans 1:29–31 · BSB

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Ephesians 4:17 · BSB

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Ephesians 4:18 · BSB

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

“habitations”

Psalm 5:8 Genesis 49:5–7

Psalm 5:8 · BSB

Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

Genesis 49:5–7 · BSB

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

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

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