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Psalms 74:20

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

KJV

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

ASV

הַבֵּ֥ט לַ/בְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְא֣וֹת חָמָֽס

Hebrew

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

YLT

Honour your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
ה
h
verb · 70×
חָמָ֖ס
chms
noun · 59×
י
y
noun · 280×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים
mchshkym
noun · 6×
מָלְאָ֥ה
ml'h
verb · 248×
נְא֣וֹת
n'vt
noun · 12×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 36:17 — Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that s
  • Deut 12:31 — Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to t
  • Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
  • Eph 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
  • Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  • Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
  • Jer 33:20 — Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
  • Ps 89:28 — My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
  • Ps 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • Ps 105:8 — He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
  • Ps 106:45 — And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.