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Psa. 74:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

Gen. 17:7‑8• ⁷and 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.
⁸And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. (Gen. 17:7‑8)

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Lev. 26:45• ⁴⁵But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 26:45)

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2 Sam. 23:5• ⁵Although my house be not so with God;{HR}Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,{HR}Ordered in all things, and sure:{HR}For this is all my salvation, and all my desire,{HR}Although he make it not to grow. (2 Sam. 23:5)

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Psa. 106:45• ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies; (Psa. 106:45)

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Jer. 33:20‑21• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah; 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;
²¹then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. (Jer. 33:20‑21)

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Heb. 8:10• ¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people. (Heb. 8:10)

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Psa. 89:28,34‑36,39• ²⁸My mercy will I keep for him,{HR}And my covenant [shall be] fixed for him.
³⁴Nor will I profane my covenant,{HR}Nor change what is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once have I sworn in my holiness,{HR}I will not lie to David,
³⁶His seed shall be forever,{HR}And his throne as the sun before me,
³⁹Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant;{HR}{i}Thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:{/i} (Psa. 89:28,34‑36,39)

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Psa. 105:8• ⁸He remembered forever his covenant,{HR}A word he commanded to a thousand generations, (Psa. 105:8)

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Psa. 106:45• ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies; (Psa. 106:45)

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Ex. 24:6‑8• ⁶{i}And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.{/i}
⁷{i}And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!{/i}
⁸{i}And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.{/i} (Ex. 24:6‑8)

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Lev. 26:40‑45• ⁴⁰And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
⁴¹so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
⁴²I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
⁴³For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because, they despised my judgments, and their soul despised my statutes.
⁴⁴And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, and to break my covenant with them, for I [am] Jehovah their God.
⁴⁵But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 26:40‑45)

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Deut. 9:27• ²⁷{i}Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin;{/i} (Deut. 9:27)

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Jer. 33:20‑26• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah; 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;
²¹then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
²²As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
²³Moreover the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
²⁶then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:20‑26)

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Luke 1:72‑75• ⁷²to fulfil mercy with our fathers, and remember his holy covenant;
⁷³[the] oath which he swore to Abraham, our father,
⁷⁴to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear,
⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:72‑75)

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the dark.

Deut. 12:31• ³¹{i}Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every thing that is abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods.{/i} (Deut. 12:31)

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Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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Eph. 4:17‑18• ¹⁷This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,
¹⁸being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart, (Eph. 4:17‑18)

habitations.

Psa. 5:8• ⁸Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness,{HR}On account of mine enemies,{HR}Make thy way straight before me. (Psa. 5:8)

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Gen. 49:5‑7• ⁵Simeon and Levi [are] brethren, weapons of violence their swords.
⁶My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen.
⁷Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Gen. 49:5‑7)

• Moreover God cannot be unmindful of the covenant that He has made in regard to the blessing of His people. (“Psalm 74” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

W. Kelly Translation

Have respect unto the covenant;{HR}For the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.