Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

New American Standard Bible

Consider the covenant;
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Consider the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of violence.

International Standard Version

Pay attention to your covenant, for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence.

A Conservative Version

Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

American Standard Version

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Amplified


Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Have regard for the covenant, because [the] dark places of [the] land are full of [the] haunts of violence.

Modern King James verseion

Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Look upon the covenant, for the dark houses of the earth are full of wickedness.

NET Bible

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

New Heart English Bible

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

The Emphasized Bible

Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Youngs Literal Translation

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Prayer For Israel

19 O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever. 20 Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts. 21 O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.


Cross References

Psalm 106:45

And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

Genesis 17:7-8

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Genesis 49:5-7

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

Exodus 24:6-8

And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar.

Leviticus 26:40-45

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Deuteronomy 9:27

Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:

Deuteronomy 12:31

Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

2 Samuel 23:5

For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

Psalm 5:8

Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

Psalm 89:28

I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

Psalm 89:34-36

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

Psalm 89:39

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

Psalm 105:8

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

Jeremiah 33:20-26

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

Luke 1:72-75

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

Romans 1:29-31

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

Ephesians 4:17-18

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

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