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Version</a></span><br />Have regard for your covenant, because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/psalms/74.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/74.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/74.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/74.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/74.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/74.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/74.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/74.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/74.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Look to the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/74.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham], For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/74.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Consider the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/74.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Consider the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of violence. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/74.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/74.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Remember the agreement you made with us. Violent enemies are hiding in every dark corner of the earth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/74.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/74.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Consider your promise because every dark corner of the land is filled with violence. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/74.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/74.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Pay attention to your covenant, for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/74.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/74.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/74.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/74.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/74.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/74.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Look attentively to the covenant, "" For the dark places of earth, "" Have been full of habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/74.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/74.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/74.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/74.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 73:20>Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/74.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Look to your covenant, for the recesses of the land are full of the haunts of violence. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/74.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/74.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Respect thy covenant, O LORD; for the habitations of the earth are full of ignorance and cruelty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/74.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Look, LORD JEHOVAH, at your covenant, because the dwellings of the Earth are filled with darkness and evil.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/74.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Look upon the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/74.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Look upon thy covenant: for the dark <i>places</i> of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/74-20.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=9122" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/74.htm">Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5027.htm" title="5027: hab·bêṭ (V-Hifil-Imp-ms) -- To look. A primitive root; to scan, i.e. Look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care.">Consider</a> <a href="/hebrew/1285.htm" title="1285: lab·bə·rîṯ (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A covenant. From barah (like bara'); a compact.">Your covenant,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/5116.htm" title="5116: nə·’ō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- Or navah; from navah; at home; hence lovely; also a home, of God, men, flocks, or wild animals.">haunts</a> <a href="/hebrew/2555.htm" title="2555: ḥā·mās (N-ms) -- Violence, wrong. From chamac; violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. Unjust gain.">of violence</a> <a href="/hebrew/4390.htm" title="4390: mā·lə·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To be full, to fill. Or malae; a primitive root, to fill or be full of, in a wide application.">fill</a> <a href="/hebrew/4285.htm" title="4285: ma·ḥă·šak·kê- (N-mpc) -- Dark place. From chashak; darkness; concretely, a dark place.">the dark places</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">of the land.</a> </span><span class="reftext">21</span>Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/2-24.htm">Exodus 2:24</a></span><br />So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/9-16.htm">Genesis 9:16</a></span><br />And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Leviticus 26:44-45</a></span><br />Yet 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. / But 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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-31.htm">Deuteronomy 4:31</a></span><br />For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/13-23.htm">2 Kings 13:23</a></span><br />But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-32.htm">Nehemiah 9:32</a></span><br />So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/54-10.htm">Isaiah 54:10</a></span><br />Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-21.htm">Jeremiah 14:21</a></span><br />For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm">Ezekiel 16:60</a></span><br />But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm">Hosea 2:19-20</a></span><br />So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion. / And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-72.htm">Luke 1:72</a></span><br />to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/3-25.htm">Acts 3:25</a></span><br />And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-27.htm">Romans 11:27</a></span><br />And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-6.htm">2 Corinthians 3:6</a></span><br />And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/3-15.htm">Galatians 3:15-17</a></span><br />Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. / The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ. / What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.</p><p class="hdg">have</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/89-28.htm">Psalm 89:28,34-36</a></b></br> My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/105-8.htm">Psalm 105:8</a></b></br> He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word <i>which</i> he commanded to a thousand generations.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/106-45.htm">Psalm 106:45</a></b></br> And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.</p><p class="hdg">the dark</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/12-31.htm">Deuteronomy 12:31</a></b></br> 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 their gods.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/1-29.htm">Romans 1:29-31</a></b></br> Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17,18</a></b></br> This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, … </p><p class="hdg">habitations</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/5-8.htm">Psalm 5:8</a></b></br> Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/49-5.htm">Genesis 49:5-7</a></b></br> Simeon and Levi <i>are</i> brethren; instruments of cruelty <i>are in</i> their habitations… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/73-8.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/job/39-29.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/psalms/64-9.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/psalms/60-1.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/psalms/74-18.htm">Cruel</a> <a href="/psalms/27-12.htm">Cruelty</a> <a href="/psalms/49-4.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/psalms/55-15.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/psalms/74-17.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/psalms/72-19.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/psalms/73-10.htm">Full</a> <a href="/psalms/46-4.htm">Habitations</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-7.htm">Haunts</a> <a href="/psalms/71-21.htm">Honor</a> <a href="/psalms/74-18.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/psalms/74-14.htm">Places</a> <a href="/psalms/73-6.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/psalms/66-18.htm">Regard</a> <a href="/psalms/40-4.htm">Respect</a> <a href="/numbers/30-13.htm">Undertaking</a> <a href="/psalms/73-6.htm">Violence</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/77-12.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/psalms/102-19.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/psalms/77-5.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/psalms/78-10.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/psalms/88-16.htm">Cruel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-4.htm">Cruelty</a> <a href="/psalms/78-2.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/psalms/78-28.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/psalms/75-3.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/psalms/81-10.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/psalms/75-8.htm">Full</a> <a href="/psalms/78-28.htm">Habitations</a> <a href="/songs/4-8.htm">Haunts</a> <a href="/psalms/84-11.htm">Honor</a> <a href="/psalms/74-22.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/psalms/78-40.htm">Places</a> <a href="/psalms/75-4.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/psalms/80-14.htm">Regard</a> <a href="/psalms/82-2.htm">Respect</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-16.htm">Undertaking</a> <a href="/psalms/140-1.htm">Violence</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 74</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/74-1.htm">The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/74-10.htm">He moves God to help in consideration of his power</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/74-18.htm">Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It implies a deep, thoughtful reflection. The psalmist is urging God to remember His covenant, a solemn agreement that He made with His people. The covenant is central to the relationship between God and Israel, often associated with promises of protection, blessing, and a call to obedience. Historically, covenants were binding agreements, and in the biblical context, they were often sealed with sacrifices. The psalmist appeals to God's faithfulness, reminding Him of the promises made to His people.<p><b>for the dark places of the land</b><br />The phrase "dark places" can be understood as areas of spiritual or moral darkness, places where God's presence and light seem absent. In Hebrew, "dark" is "choshek," which can also mean obscurity or secrecy. This could refer to regions overtaken by idolatry or oppression, where the knowledge of God is not acknowledged. Historically, Israel faced many periods of spiritual decline and foreign oppression, and the psalmist is likely lamenting these conditions, asking God to intervene.<p><b>are full of violence</b><br />The Hebrew word for "violence" is "chamas," which denotes cruelty, injustice, or wrongdoing. This word is often used in the Old Testament to describe the moral corruption and social injustice that provoked God's judgment. The psalmist is highlighting the prevalence of violence and injustice in the land, a situation that stands in stark contrast to the peace and righteousness that should characterize a society under God's covenant. This plea is a call for divine justice and restoration, a cry for God to act against the pervasive evil and to restore His order and peace.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/74.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(20) <span class= "bld">Habitations.</span>--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, <span class= "ital">Notes on the Hebrew Psalms.</span>)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/74.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Have respect unto the covenant.</span> 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? <span class="cmt_word">For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.</span> 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, <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, where captives taken in war are treated with harshness and violence. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/74-20.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Consider</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבֵּ֥ט</span> <span class="translit">(hab·bêṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5027.htm">Strong's 5027: </a> </span><span class="str2">To scan, look intently at, to regard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your covenant,</span><br /><span class="heb">לַבְּרִ֑ית</span> <span class="translit">(lab·bə·rîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1285.htm">Strong's 1285: </a> </span><span class="str2">A covenant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">haunts</span><br /><span class="heb">נְא֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(nə·’ō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4999.htm">Strong's 4999: </a> </span><span class="str2">Habitation, house, pasture, pleasant place </span><br /><br /><span class="word">of violence</span><br /><span class="heb">חָמָֽס׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·mās)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2555.htm">Strong's 2555: </a> </span><span class="str2">Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">fill</span><br /><span class="heb">מָלְא֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(mā·lə·’ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fill, be full of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the dark places</span><br /><span class="heb">מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־</span> <span class="translit">(ma·ḥă·šak·kê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4285.htm">Strong's 4285: </a> </span><span class="str2">Darkness, a dark place</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the land.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֝֗רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/74-20.htm">Psalm 74:20 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/74-20.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 74:20 Honor your covenant for haunts of violence (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/74-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 74:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 74:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/74-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 74:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 74:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>