For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,
he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.
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