Psalm 74:21
New International Version
Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace; may the poor and needy praise your name.

New Living Translation
Don’t let the downtrodden be humiliated again. Instead, let the poor and needy praise your name.

English Standard Version
Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

King James Bible
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

New King James Version
Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your name.

New American Standard Bible
May the oppressed person not return dishonored; May the afflicted and the needy praise Your name.

NASB 1995
Let not the oppressed return dishonored; Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

NASB 1977
Let not the oppressed return dishonored; Let the afflicted and needy praise Thy name.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let not the oppressed return dishonored; Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Amplified Bible
Let not the oppressed return dishonored; Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Christian Standard Bible
Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame; let the poor and needy praise Your name.

American Standard Version
Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let not the poor remain ashamed; let the afflicted and the poor praise your Name.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

Contemporary English Version
Don't disappoint those in need or make them turn from you, but help the poor and homeless to shout your praises.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

English Revised Version
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not let oppressed people come back in disgrace. Let weak and needy people praise your name.

Good News Translation
Don't let the oppressed be put to shame; let those poor and needy people praise you.

International Standard Version
Don't let the oppressed return in humiliation. The poor and needy will praise your name.

JPS Tanakh 1917
O let not the oppressed turn back in confusion; Let the poor and needy praise Thy name.

Literal Standard Version
Do not let the oppressed turn back ashamed, | Let the poor and needy praise Your Name,

Majority Standard Bible
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

New American Bible
Let not the oppressed turn back in shame; may the poor and needy praise your name.

NET Bible
Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

New Heart English Bible
Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Webster's Bible Translation
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

World English Bible
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Young's Literal Translation
Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land. 21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name. 22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.…

Cross References
Psalm 10:18
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones will exclaim, "Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?"

Psalm 103:6
The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


Treasury of Scripture

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.

o let not

Psalm 9:18
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Psalm 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psalm 102:19-21
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; …

poor

Psalm 102:21
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Ezra 3:11
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

Jeremiah 33:11
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

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Psalm 74
1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary
10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power
18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant.














(21) Oppressed.--Literally, crushed. (See Psalm 9:9; Psalm 10:18.)

Verse 21. - O let not the oppressed return ashamed; i.e. let not this oppressed nation turn their back on thee in shame and confusion at thy forsaking them. Rather, let the poor and needy praise thy Name; i.e. show them some mercy, some deliverance, which may turn their shame into joy, and call forth from them songs of praise.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

let the oppressed
דַּ֣ךְ (daḵ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1790: Crushed, oppressed

retreat
יָשֹׁ֣ב (yā·šōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

in shame;
נִכְלָ֑ם (niḵ·lām)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3637: To wound, to taunt, insult

may the poor
עָנִ֥י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

and needy
וְ֝אֶבְי֗וֹן (wə·’eḇ·yō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 34: In want, needy, poor

praise
יְֽהַלְל֥וּ (yə·hal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1984: To shine

Your name.
שְׁמֶֽךָ׃ (šə·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name


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