Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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.

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 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 Do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the multitude; forget not the congregation of Your poor forever. 20 Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil. 21 Oh let not the ill-treated ones return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise Your name.

Cross References

Psalm 106:45

and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.

Genesis 17:7-8

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Genesis 49:5-7

Simeon and Levi are brothers; tools of violence are their weapons.

Exodus 24:6-8

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

Leviticus 26:40-45

If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

2 Samuel 23:5

Although my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O Jehovah, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies; make Your way straight before my face.

Psalm 89:28

I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.

Psalm 89:34-36

I will not break My covenant, nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips.

Psalm 89:39

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

Psalm 105:8

He has remembered His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations;

Jeremiah 33:20-26

So says Jehovah: If you 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,

Luke 1:72-75

to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant,

Romans 1:29-31

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Ephesians 4:17-18

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Hebrews 8:10

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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