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Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?

Psalms 74:20

In 11 translations

BSB
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
KJV
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
WEB
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
ASV
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
LSV
Look attentively to the covenant, || For the dark places of earth, || Have been full of habitations of violence.
YLT
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
DBY
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
DRC73:20
Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
GNV
Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
JPS
Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
LXXE73:20
Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַבֵּ֥ט לַבְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְא֣וֹת חָמָֽס׃
LXX-Br73:20
Ἐπίβλεψον εἰς τὴν διαθήκην σου, ὅτι ἐπληρωθήσαν οἱ ἐσκοτωμένοι τῆς γῆς οἴκων ἀνομιῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 17:7–8I 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. And to you and your descendants I will give the land…
  • Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 89:34–36I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David— his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
  • 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, then My covenant may also be broken with David My…
  • Psalms 105:8He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
  • Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
  • 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.
  • Ephesians 4:17–18So 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. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because…
  • Genesis 49:5–7Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence. May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim. Cursed be their…
  • 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?
  • Psalms 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
  • Leviticus 26:40–45But 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— and I acted with hostility toward them and…
  • Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
  • Romans 1:29–31They 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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful.…
  • Luke 1:72–75to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness…

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