Psalms 74:19
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
The plea belongs to a prayer for rescue uttered amid the sorrows and desolation of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. It reflects a time when the sanctuary had been destroyed by fire and burned to the ground.
The second half is a promise that God remembers His needy people and will not leave them forgotten forever, while for the rich Scripture holds only threats and warnings. Their poverty carries dignity and privilege because they follow Christ, whose birth was marked by poverty, whose life was sustained by labor, and whose burial was provided by generosity, and who carried their poverty into heaven to sympathize with them. Their days of suffering will soon end when they are satisfied in God's house without hunger or thirst, while those who were rich and lived in self-indulgence will face a dreadful reversal into wretchedness and desolation. It gives courage to the children of need as blessed sharers in Christ's humiliation, urging them to forget their own troubles and to pity and pray for the rich.