To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; {those...: Heb. the children of death}

O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein {is}: which keepeth truth for ever:

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, {and} them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set {him} in safety {from him that} puffeth at him. {puffeth...: or, would ensnare him}

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; {those...: Heb. the children of death}

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. {such...: Heb. the sons of destruction}

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

This thing {is} not good that thou hast done. {As} the LORD liveth, ye {are} worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear {is}, and the cruse of water that {was} at his bolster. {worthy to die: Heb. the sons of death}

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.

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {grievous: Heb. hard}

For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. {shall...: Heb. is the son of death}

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,