Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 74:20

"Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence." — Psalms 74:20 (ASV)

Habitations. —The word translated this way is so consistently used of the “quiet resting-places” of God’s people that it seems quite impossible that the psalmist should have used the expression, “resting-places of cruelty.” A slight change in the text gives, Look upon the covenant, for they have filled (Thy) land with darkness, Thy quiet dwelling with violence (Burgess, Notes on the Hebrew Psalms.)