Psalm 107:14

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Summary

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Brought

Brake

Bible References

Brought

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

Brake

Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.