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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 for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. (Lev. 26:45)

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2 Sam. 23:5• ⁵Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my 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 mercies. (Psa. 106:45)

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Jer. 33:20‑21• ²⁰Thus saith the Lord; 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• ¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Heb. 8:10)

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Psa. 89:28,34‑36,39• ²⁸My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
³⁴My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness that 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 by casting it to the ground. (Psa. 89:28,34‑36,39)

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Psa. 105:8• ⁸He hath remembered his covenant for ever, 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 mercies. (Psa. 106:45)

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Ex. 24:6‑8• ⁶And Moses took half of 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 in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:6‑8)

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Lev. 26:40‑45• ⁴⁰If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
⁴¹And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
⁴²Then will I 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.
⁴³The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
⁴⁴And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
⁴⁵But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. (Lev. 26:40‑45)

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

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Jer. 33:20‑26• ²⁰Thus saith the Lord; 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 the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord 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 the Lord; 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 perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
⁷³The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
⁷⁴That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:72‑75)

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the dark.

Deut. 12:31• ³¹Thou 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. (Deut. 12:31)

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Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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Eph. 4:17‑18• ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: (Eph. 4:17‑18)

habitations.

Psa. 5:8• ⁸Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. (Psa. 5:8)

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Gen. 49:5‑7• ⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
⁶O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, 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.