Psalms Chapter 74 verse 20 Holy Bible
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
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Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
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Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
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Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Have respect unto the covenant. The "covenant" intended is probably that made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whereby Canaan was assured to their descendants, as "the lot of their inheritance." Israel is being deprived of its inheritance, and dragged off into "dark places." Will not "respect for his covenant" induce God to interpose, and even now at the last gasp deliver his afflicted ones? For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. Israel is being dragged into "dark places of the earth" - benighted lands, where there is no glimmer of the light of God's truth - and lands, moreover, which are "full of habitations of cruelty," abodes, i.e., where captives taken in war are treated with harshness and violence.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Habitations.--The word thus rendered is so consistently used of the "quiet resting-places" of God's people that it seems quite impossible that the psalmist should have used the expression, "resting- places of cruelty." A slight change in the text gives, "Look upon the covenant, for they have filled (Thy) land with darkness, Thy quiet dwelling with violence" (Burgess, Notes on the Hebrew Psalms.)
