Lamentations 3:34
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34 When all the prisoners of the land
are crushed under foot,
Zechariah 9:11-12
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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)
Isaiah 51:22-23
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22 Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord,
your God who pleads the cause of his people:
See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;
you shall drink no more
from the cup of my wrath.(A)
23 And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
who have said to you,
“Bow down, that we may walk on you,”
and you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to walk on.(B)
Jeremiah 51:33-36
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33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
and the time of her harvest will come.(A)
34 “King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has spewed me out.(B)
35 May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon,”
the inhabitants of Zion shall say.
“May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem shall say.(C)
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
I am going to defend your cause
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain dry,(D)
Isaiah 49:9
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9 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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Psalm 102:20
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,(A)
Psalm 69:33
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33 For the Lord hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are in bonds.(A)
Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(A)
Psalm 79:11
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11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die.(A)
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and so also are the people of Judah; all their captors have held them fast and refuse to let them go.(A) 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.(B)
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Jeremiah 50:17
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17 Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.(A)
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