To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of sta
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the t
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush hi