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Psalms 113:9
He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!
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Psalms 107:10
Others sat in darkness and gloom— prisoners in cruel chains—
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Psalms 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.
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Psalms 146:7
executing justice for the exploited and giving food to the hungry. The Lord frees prisoners.
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Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners;
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Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
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1 Samuel 2 5
Those who are full hire themselves out for food, but those who are starving hunger no more. The woman who is childless gives birth to seven, but the woman with many sons pines away.
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Galatians 4:27
For it is written: Rejoice, childless woman, who does not give birth. Burst into song and shout, you who are not in labor, for the children of the desolate are many, more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.
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Psalms 107:40-41
He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.But He lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.
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Psalms 69:33
For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise His own who are prisoners.
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Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
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Acts 12:6-25
On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said,“ Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists.“ Get dressed,” the angel told him,“ and put on your sandals.” And he did so.“ Wrap your cloak around you,” he told him,“ and follow me.”So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.Then Peter came to himself and said,“ Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many had assembled and were praying.He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.She recognized Peter’s voice, and because of her joy, she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gateway.“ You’re crazy!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said,“ It’s his angel!”Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he explained to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison.“ Report these things to James and the brothers,” he said. Then he departed and went to a different place.At daylight, there was a great commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.He had been very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. Together they presented themselves before him. They won over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, and through him they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.So on an appointed day, dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne, Herod delivered a public address to them.The assembled people began to shout,“ It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he became infected with worms and died.Then God’s message flourished and multiplied.After they had completed their relief mission, Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, taking along John who is called Mark.
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Acts 16:26
Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.
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Malachi 1:3
but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
