Psalm 74:19 {73:19}
Good News Translation
Don't abandon your helpless people to their cruel enemies; don't forget your persecuted people!

New Revised Standard Version
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals; do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Contemporary English Version
You treat us like pet doves, but they mistreat us. Don't keep forgetting us and letting us be fed to those wild animals.

New American Bible
Do not surrender to wild animals those who praise you; do not forget forever the life of your afflicted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

turtle-dove

Psalm 68:13 If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.

Songs 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Songs 4:1 How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.

Songs 6:9 One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.

Isaiah 60:8 Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

forget

Psalm 68:10 In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

Psalm 72:2 Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

Zephaniah 3:12 And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and they shall hope in the name of the Lord.

James 2:5,6 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him? . . .

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
18Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. 19Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:18
For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Psalm 68:10
In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

Songs 2:12
The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:

Songs 2:14
My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Psalm 74:18
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