Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
- KJV Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- NKJV Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
- NASB Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence.
- NLT Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!
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Quick answer
Asaph asks God to honor His covenant, for the dark places of the land are filled with violence.
Overview
The plea now rests squarely on God's covenant faithfulness as the ground of hope. Amid widespread violence and oppression, the psalmist appeals to the binding promises God made to His people. God's covenant loyalty is the unshakable foundation of prayer, a faithfulness that culminates in the new covenant sealed in Christ's blood.
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Cross-references · 18
- Gen 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.
- Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Heb 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.
- Ps 89:34–36I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
- Jer 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,
- Ps 105:8He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
- Ps 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
- Deut 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.
- Eph 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.
- Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
- 2 Sam 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?
- Ps 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
- Luke 1:72–75to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
- Lev 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—
- Deut 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
- Rom 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,
- Exod 24:6–8Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
- Gen 49:5–7Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
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