Psalm 74:20

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Look to the covenant! For the dark places of the earth are filled as habitations of violence.

Latin

Respice in testamentum tuum, quia repleti sunt qui obscurati sunt terræ domibus iniquitatum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Psalms 74:19–23

The poet urges God to act.

Psalms 74:1–23

The psalmist laments the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. This happened in 586 BC. The psalmist uses vivid imagery, asks questions, recalls fresh memories, and directly asks the Lord to act (Psalm 74:19–23).

Psalms 73:1–75:10

The seeming success of the wicked (Psalm 73) and God's apparent rejection of his people (Psalm 74) raise questions about his justice. God rules the entire world and decides when to judge (Psalm 75).

Theme notes and profiles

Questions and Doubt

Related verses

Genesis 17:7–8
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Psalm 106:45
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
Hebrews 8:10
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.
Jeremiah 33:20–26
“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,
Psalm 89:28
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Psalm 89:34–36
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Psalm 105:8
He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
Ephesians 4:17–18
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.
Deuteronomy 12:31
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.
Psalm 89:39
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
Psalm 5:8
Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
Luke 1:72–75
…to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

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