Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Holman Bible
to set free those condemned to die,
International Standard Version
to listen to the groans of prisoners, to set free those condemned to death,
A Conservative Version
to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,
Amplified
To hear the sighing of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,
Darby Translation
To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die;
Julia Smith Translation
To hear the groaning of the bound; to loose the sons of death.
King James 2000
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Lexham Expanded Bible
to hear [the] groaning of [the] prisoner, to liberate {those destined to die},
Modern King James verseion
to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the sons of death;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that he may hear the mournings of such as be in captivity, and deliver the children that are appointed unto death,
NET Bible
in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,
New Heart English Bible
to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
The Emphasized Bible
To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were appointed to death.
Webster
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
World English Bible
to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
Youngs Literal Translation
To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,
Themes
Prisoners » Of war » Consolations for
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often subjected to extreme suffering
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth; 20 To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death; 21 That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem;
Cross References
Psalm 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;
Psalm 146:7
Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
Exodus 2:23-25
And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 3:7
And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
2 Kings 13:4
And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Kings 13:22-23
And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
2 Chronicles 33:11-13
Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
Isaiah 14:17
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
Isaiah 61:1-3
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Jeremiah 51:32-35
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Zechariah 9:9-12
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Acts 12:6-11
And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.
Ephesians 2:2-3
wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;