Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and irons;

God causes those who are alone to live in households; He delivers those who are bound into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

before I go and not return; to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

a land of darkness and gloom, as the shadow of death, without any order; where it shines as darkness.

He does not believe that he will return from darkness, for a sword watches for him.

He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he shall be removed.

He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the Light of Life.

And Jehovah returned what had been taken captive from Job when he prayed for his friends. Indeed Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

So Jehovah blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness into light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things for them, and not forsake them.

that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be on all the barren heights.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you.

And the nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His possession, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the children of death,

until the time that his word came to pass. The Word of Jehovah had refined him.

The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free.

O Jehovah, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds.

who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah lets loose the prisoners.

And if they are bound in fetters, caught in cords of affliction,

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

And he changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread before him all the days of his life.

As for you, by the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners from the pit, where there is no water.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

Then one came and reported to them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

And behold, the Angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.

So he went out and followed Him, and did not know that what was done through the Angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's bonds were loosened.

But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.

And he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they spoke the Word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.

So the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.

And the floggers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.

So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.