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

Others sat in darkness and gloom—
prisoners in cruel chains—

God provides homes for those who are deserted.
He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a scorched land.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,
never to return.

He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;
he is destined for the sword.

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.

in order to turn him back from the Pit,
so he may shine with the light of life.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them
and rough places into level ground.
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not forsake them.

saying to the prisoners: Come out,
and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord shines over you.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

But you are a chosen race,

a royal priesthood,

a holy nation,

a people for His possession,

so that you may proclaim the praises

of the One who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light.

Brake

to hear a prisoner’s groaning,
to set free those condemned to die,

Until the time his prediction came true,
the word of the Lord tested him.

Lord, I am indeed Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant.
You have loosened my bonds.

executing justice for the exploited
and giving food to the hungry.
The Lord frees prisoners.

If people are bound with chains
and trapped by the cords of affliction,

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.