Psalm 74:20 {73:20}
Good News Translation
Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.

New Revised Standard Version
Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

Contemporary English Version
Remember the agreement you made with us. Violent enemies are hiding in every dark corner of the earth.

New American Bible
Look to your covenant, for the recesses of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

have

Psalm 89:28,34-36 I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. . . .

Psalm 105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Psalm 106:45 And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Genesis 17:7,8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Exodus 24:6-8 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar. . . .

Leviticus 26:40-45 Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Jeremiah 33:20-26 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: . . .

Luke 1:72-75 To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament. . . .

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

the dark

Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Romans 1:29-31 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, . . .

Ephesians 4:17,18 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind: . . .

habitations

Psalm 5:8 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.

Genesis 49:5-7 Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war. . . .

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
19Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. 20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.21Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Psalm 88:6
They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Psalm 106:45
And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psalm 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:

Psalm 74:19
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