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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 to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
⁸And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (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 before *God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For this is all my salvation, and every desire, 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, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses; (Psa. 106:45)

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Jer. 33:20‑21• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
²¹then shall 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 that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also 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 loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;
³⁴My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David:
³⁶His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;
³⁹Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground: (Psa. 89:28,34‑36,39)

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Psa. 105:8• ⁸He is ever mindful of his covenant,--the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,-- (Psa. 105:8)

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Psa. 106:45• ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses; (Psa. 106:45)

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Ex. 24:6‑8• ⁶And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
⁷And 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!
⁸And 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. (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 unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
⁴¹so that I also walked contrary unto 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 abhorred 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, 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• ²⁷Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin; (Deut. 9:27)

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Jer. 33:20‑26• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
²¹then shall 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 the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
²³And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,
²⁶then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will 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,
⁷³the 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• ³¹Thou 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. (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, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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Eph. 4:17‑18• ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, (Eph. 4:17‑18)

habitations.

Psa. 5:8• ⁸Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me. (Psa. 5:8)

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Gen. 49:5‑7• ⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
⁶My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was violent; 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. (“Psalms 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.