Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Ver. 20. Have respect unto the covenant] This the Church knew to be her best plea; and, therefore, she so plieth it.
For the dark places of the earth are full of cruelty] That is, saith Basil, those places where men are in the darkness of ignorance, not knowing God, are full of ambition and tyranny. Others make this the sense, We can hide ourselves nowhere but the persecutors ferret us out.