Have regard for your covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.
Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
There is a legal gloss that might result in "plead your cause."
But this is only one possibility.
The Hebrew is רִיב or riyb, also means to contend, strive, engage.
It is the same verb found in Isaiah 27:8: "You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind."
Contend with us. Strive with us. Engage with us. And we with you.
Psalm 74
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