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saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
    to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways;
    on all the bare heights[a] shall be their pasture;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 49.9 Or the trails

16 I will lead the blind
    by a road they do not know;
by paths they have not known
    I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
    the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
    and I will not forsake them.(A)

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    to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
    from the prison those who sit in darkness.(A)

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)

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  1. 2.9 Gk a people for his possession

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because he has anointed me
        to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
    and recovery of sight to the blind,
        to set free those who are oppressed,(A)

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11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
    I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.(A)
12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that I will restore to you double.(B)

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The Good News of Deliverance

61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me
    because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
    to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and release to the prisoners,(A)

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18 I will open rivers on the bare heights
    and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water
    and the dry land springs of water.(A)

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[a]The people who walked in darkness
    have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness—
    on them light has shined.(A)

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  1. 9.2 9.1 in Heb

20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die,(A)

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33 For the Lord hears the needy
    and does not despise his own who are in bonds.(A)

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for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A)

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13 He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,(A)

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