Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

Darby Translation

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings 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 Thou wilt not give the soul of thy turtle-dove to the beast: the life of thy poor thou wilt not forget forever. 20 Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence. 21 The poor one shall not turn back ashamed: the humble and the needy shall praise thy name.

Cross References

Psalm 106:45

And he will remember his covenant to them, and he will console according to the multitude of his mercy.

Genesis 17:7-8

And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 49:5-7

Simon and Levi brethren; their swords instruments of violence.

Exodus 24:6-8

And Moses will take half of the blood, and put in basins; and half the blood he sprinkled upon the altar.

Leviticus 26:40-45

And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, and the transgression which they dealt treacherously against me, and also that they went hostile with me;

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember thy servants, for Abraham, for Isaak, and for Jacob, thou wilt not look to the stubbornness of this people, and to its wickedness, and to its sin:

Deuteronomy 12:31

Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which he hated they did to their gods; for also their sons and their daughters they will burn in fire to their gods.

2 Samuel 23:5

For not thus my house with the Strong One, for he set to me an eternal covenant, prepared in all, and watched: for all my salvation and delight will he not bring forth.

Psalm 5:8

O Jehovah, guide me into thy justice, for sake of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Psalm 89:28

Forever will I watch my mercy to him, and my covenant was firm to him.

Psalm 89:34-36

I will not profane my covenant, and I will not change the going forth of my lips.

Psalm 89:39

Thou didst reject the covenant of thy servant: thou didst profane to the earth his consecration.

Psalm 105:8

He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations.

Jeremiah 33:20-26

Thus said Jehovah, If ye shall break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, and there was not day and night in their season;

Luke 1:72-75

To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant:

Romans 1:29-31

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

Ephesians 4:17-18

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

Hebrews 8:10

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

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