God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travai
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but s
On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, wit
Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her i
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”