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Psalms 74:20
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Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
Consider the covenant,for the dark places of the land are full of violence.
Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the eretz.
Remember the agreement you gave us, because violence fills every dark place in this land.
Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham], For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Remember the agreement you made with us. Violent enemies are hiding in every dark corner of the earth.
Look to the covenant, for the land's dark places are full of the haunts of violence.
Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Haue respect vnto the couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of crueltie.
Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Look to Your covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full, the abodes of violence.
Remember the agreement you made with us, because violence fills every dark corner of this land.
Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.
Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!
Think about Your agreement. For the dark places of the land are full of fighting.
Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
(73-20) Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
Respect thy covenant, O LORD; for the habitations of the earth are full of ignorance and cruelty.
Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.
Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence.
Loke vpon the couenaunt: for darknesse of the earth hath replenisshed houses with iniquitie.
Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
Biholde in to thi testament; for thei that ben maad derk of erthe, ben fillid with the housis of wickidnessis.
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
O delyuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beestes, & forget not the congregacon of the poore for euer.
Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Look to the covenant;For the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Have: Psalms 89:28, Psalms 89:34-36, Psalms 89:39, Psalms 105:8, Psalms 106:45, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Exodus 24:6-8, Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 9:27, 2 Samuel 23:5, Jeremiah 33:20-26, Luke 1:72-75, Hebrews 8:10
the dark: Deuteronomy 12:31, Romans 1:29-31, Ephesians 4:17, Ephesians 4:18
habitations: Psalms 5:8, Genesis 49:5-7
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:19 - Have respect 2 Chronicles 36:17 - who slew Psalms 94:5 - break Jeremiah 14:21 - disgrace Jeremiah 50:42 - they are cruel Acts 27:42 - General Ephesians 5:8 - ye were
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have respect unto the covenant,.... The Targum adds,
"which thou hast made with our fathers;''
meaning not the covenant of works, which being broken, no good thing was to be expected from it, not liberty, life, nor eternal salvation, but all the reverse; but the covenant of grace, made with Christ before the world was, and made manifest to Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to David, and others: this God has a respect unto, and does look unto it; he looks to the surety and Mediator of it, which is Christ, for the fulfilment of all conditions in it; to the promises of it, that they may be made good; to the blessings of it, that they be bestowed upon the persons to whom they belong; to the blood of it, for the delivering of the church's prisoners, and the salvation of them from wrath to come; and to the persons interested in it, that they be all called and brought safe to glory; and particularly to the things in it, respecting the glory of the church in the latter day, and increase of its members, and of its light, which seem chiefly designed here; and therefore it follows:
for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty; many places of the earth are in gross darkness as to the knowledge of spiritual and divine things; even all those places which are inhabited by Pagans, Mahometans, and Papists, which make a great part of the globe; and in these dark places cruelty reigns, and especially in the antichristian states; wherefore the church pleads the covenant of God and his promises, that he would send forth his light and his truth, and cover the earth with the knowledge of the Lord, which is now covered with gross darkness, and under the tyranny and oppression of the man of sin.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have respect unto the covenant - The covenant which thou hast made with thy people, promising, on thy part, to protect them, and to be their God. Compare Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:2; Deuteronomy 26:18-19. The prayer here is, that God would remember, in the day of national calamity, the solemn promise implied in that covenant, and that he would interpose to save his people. Compare Genesis 9:15; Leviticus 26:42; Ezekiel 16:60; Luke 1:72. This may be regarded as the language which the people did use when these calamities were about to come upon them.
For the dark places of the earth - The allusion here is to the lands from whence came the armies that had invaded Judea, and that threatened desolation. They were dark regions of paganism and idolatry.
Are full of the habitations of cruelty - The abodes of violence, or of violent and cruel men. They had sent forth their armies from such places for purposes of conquest and rapine, and no compassion could be expected from them. Their numbers were so great, and their character was so fierce and warlike, that the people of Israel could find defense and security only in God; and they, therefore, plead with him that he would interpose in their behalf. The prayer in this passage may with propriety be used by the people of God now. It is still true that “the dark parts of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty;” and in view of this fact, and of the utter hopelessness of the renovation of the world by any human means, or by any progress which society can make of itself, it is proper to seek God’s interposition. And it is proper in such prayers to him now, as in ancient times, to make the ground of our appeal to him his own gracious covenant; his promises made to his church; his solemn assurances that this state of things shall not always continue, but that the time will arrive when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 74:20. Have respect unto the covenant — הבט לברית habbet labberith. Pay attention to the covenant sacrifice; to that offered by Abraham, Genesis 15:9, c., when the contracting parties, God and Abram, passed through between the separated parts of the covenant sacrifice. An indisputable type of Jesus Christ and of God and man meeting in his sacrificed humanity.
The dark places of the earth — The caves, dens, woods, &c., of the land are full of robbers, cut-throats, and murderers, who are continually destroying thy people, so that the holy seed seems as if it would be entirely cut off and the covenant promise thus be rendered void.
The words may either apply to Chaldea or Judea. Judea was at this time little else than a den of robbers, its own natural inhabitants being removed. Chaldea was infested with hordes of banditti also.
