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Psalms 74:20
Psalms 74:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 74, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
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.
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Psalms 74:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
19 Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
20 Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
21 Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
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Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Psalms 89:34I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Psalms 89:35Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
Psalms 89:36his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
Psalms 105:8He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
Genesis 17:7I 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.
Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Exodus 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
Exodus 24:7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Exodus 24:8So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Leviticus 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
Leviticus 26:41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
Leviticus 26:42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Leviticus 26:43For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Leviticus 26:44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus 26:45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
2 Samuel 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
Jeremiah 33:20“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,
Jeremiah 33:21then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
Jeremiah 33:22As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Jeremiah 33:23Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Jeremiah 33:25This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
Jeremiah 33:26then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
Luke 1:73the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
Luke 1:75in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
Hebrews 8:10For 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.
Deuteronomy 12:31You 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 1:29They 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,
Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Ephesians 4:17So 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 4:18They 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.
Psalms 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
Genesis 49:6May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.