Lamentations 3:34
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34 To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
Zechariah 9:11-12
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God Will Save His People
11 “As for you also,
Because of the blood of your covenant,
I will set your (A)prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 Return to the stronghold,
(B)You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore (C)double to you.
Isaiah 51:22-23
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22 Thus says your Lord,
The Lord and your God,
Who (A)pleads the cause of His people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
The cup of trembling,
The dregs of the cup of My fury;
You shall no longer drink it.
23 (B)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul
Jeremiah 51:33-36
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33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is (A)like a threshing floor
When (B)it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
(C)And the time of her harvest will come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has (D)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an (E)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (F)I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
(G)I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
Isaiah 49:9
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9 That You may say (A)to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
“They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.
Psalm 102:20
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20 (A)To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,
Psalm 69:33
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33 For the Lord hears the poor,
And does not despise (A)His prisoners.
Isaiah 14:17
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17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who [a]did not open the house of his prisoners?’
Footnotes
- Isaiah 14:17 Would not release
Psalm 79:11
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11 Let (A)the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your [a]power
Preserve those who are appointed to die;
Footnotes
- Psalm 79:11 Lit. arm
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“The children of Israel were oppressed,
Along with the children of Judah;
All who took them captive have held them fast;
They have refused to let them go.
34 (A)Their Redeemer is strong;
(B)The Lord of hosts is His name.
He will thoroughly plead their (C)case,
That He may give rest to the land,
And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:17
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17 “Israel is like (A)scattered sheep;
(B)The lions have driven him away.
First (C)the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this (D)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
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