(A)Who executes justice for the oppressed,
(B)Who gives food to the hungry.
(C)The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.

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The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all who are oppressed.

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(A)God sets the solitary in families;
(B)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But (C)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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The Good News of Salvation

61 “The (A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord (B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me (C)to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim (D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:1 Lit. bind up

18 “The(A) Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me [a]to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To (B)set at liberty those who are [b]oppressed;

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:18 NU omits to heal the brokenhearted
  2. Luke 4:18 downtrodden

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.

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22 Do not rob the (A)poor because he is poor,
Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
23 (B)For the Lord will plead their cause,
And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

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18 To [a]do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may [b]oppress no more.

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  1. Psalm 10:18 vindicate
  2. Psalm 10:18 terrify

Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may (A)praise Your name;
The righteous shall surround me,
For You shall deal bountifully with me.”

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26 (A)Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately (B)all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

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19 But at night (A)an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

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17 So they all ate and were [a]filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:17 satisfied

53 He has (A)filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty.

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