Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Prayer For Israel

19 Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever. 20 Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence. 21 Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,


Cross References

Psalm 106:45

And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

Genesis 17:7-8

'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

Genesis 49:5-7

Simeon and Levi are brethren! Instruments of violence -- their espousals!

Exodus 24:6-8

And Moses taketh half of the blood, and putteth in basins, and half of the blood hath he sprinkled on the altar;

Leviticus 26:40-45

And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

Deuteronomy 9:27

be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;

Deuteronomy 12:31

'Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.

2 Samuel 23:5

For -- not so is my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused it to spring up.

Psalm 5:8

O Jehovah, lead me in Thy righteousness, Because of those observing me, Make straight before me Thy way,

Psalm 89:28

To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

Psalm 89:34-36

I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

Psalm 89:39

Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

Psalm 105:8

He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

Jeremiah 33:20-26

'Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,

Luke 1:72-75

To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant,

Romans 1:29-31

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

Ephesians 4:17-18

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Hebrews 8:10

because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

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