Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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 Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever. 20 Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence. 21 Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.


Cross References

Psalm 106:45

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

Genesis 17:7-8

And 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.

Genesis 49:5-7

Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.

Exodus 24:6-8

And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Leviticus 26:40-45

And 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,

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin;

Deuteronomy 12:31

Thou 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.

2 Samuel 23:5

Although 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.

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

Psalm 89:28

My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;

Psalm 89:34-36

My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Psalm 89:39

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:

Psalm 105:8

He is ever mindful of his covenant, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, --

Jeremiah 33:20-26

Thus 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,

Luke 1:72-75

to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,

Romans 1:29-31

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

Ephesians 4:17-18

This 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,

Hebrews 8:10

Because 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.

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