Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!
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.
- BSB Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- 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.
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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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Ps 89:34–36I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- Jer 33:20–26“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Ps 105:8He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- Ps 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
- Deut 12:31You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
- Eph 4:17–18This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
- Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Luke 1:72–75to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- Lev 26:40–45“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
- Deut 9:27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
- Rom 1:29–31being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
- Exod 24:6–8Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Gen 49:5–7“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
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