Psalm 107:10-16

The Voice

¹⁰ Some people were locked up in dark prisons, confined in gloom as bleak as death.
    They were captives bound by iron chains and misery,
¹¹ All because they had rebelled against the directives of the True God
    and had rejected the wisdom of the Most High.
¹² So they suffered the heaviness of slave labor;
    when they stumbled and fell, there was no one to help them up.
¹³ In their distress, they called out to the Eternal;
    He saved them from their misery.
¹⁴ He rescued them from the darkness, delivered them from the deepest gloom of death;
    He shattered their iron chains.
¹⁵ May they erupt with praise and give thanks to the Eternal
    in honor of His loyal love
And all the wonders He has performed for humankind!
¹⁶ He has broken down the bronze gates
    and severed the iron bars that imprisoned them.