He maketh the barren woman to keep house, {and to be} a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. {to keep...: Heb. to dwell in an house}

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;

The Spirit of the Lord GOD {is} upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to {them that are} bound;

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, {where there is} no way. {wilderness: or, void place}

For it is written, Rejoice, {thou} barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

{They that were} full have hired out themselves for bread; and {they that were} hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

And thy heaven that {is} over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee {shall be} iron.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. {barrenness: Heb. saltiness}

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, {and to be} a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. {to keep...: Heb. to dwell in an house}

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. {chains: or, manicles}

And now she {is} planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}

And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for {there is} no bread, neither {is there any} water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.