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11Let the sighing of the prisoner come{H8799)} before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve{H8685)} thou those that are appointed to die;
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To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: …
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.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)The petitions here put up to God are very suitable to the present distresses of the church, and they have pleas to enforce them, interwoven with them, taken mostly from God’s honour. I. They pray that God would so turn away his anger from them as to turn it upon those that persecuted and abused them (Ps. 79:6): “ Pour out thy wrath , the full vials of it, upon the heathen ; let them wring out the…
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