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Psalms 74:21
Psalms 74:21 is verse 21 of Psalms chapter 74, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
King James Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
World English Bible
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
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Psalms 74:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
23 Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Psalms 102:19For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Psalms 102:21that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,
Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Isaiah 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
Ezra 3:11And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
Jeremiah 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.