to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,

要垂听被囚之人的叹息，要释放将要死的人，

要垂听被囚之人的叹息，要释放将死的人，

要垂听被囚之人的叹息，要释放将死的人，

要垂听被囚之人的哀叹，释放被判死刑的人。

为要垂听被囚的人的叹息，解救定了死罪的人；

为要垂听被囚者的呻吟，释放那些注定要死的人；

要垂聽被囚之人的歎息，要釋放將要死的人，

要垂聽被囚之人的嘆息，要釋放將死的人，

要垂聽被囚之人的嘆息，要釋放將死的人，

要垂聽被囚之人的哀歎，釋放被判死刑的人。

為要垂聽被囚的人的歎息，解救定了死罪的人；

來聽被擄之人的唉哼，來釋放瀕於死亡的人；

為要垂聽被囚者的呻吟，釋放那些註定要死的人；

聽俘囚之欷歔、釋瀕死之人兮、

俘囚欷歔、彼其聞之、人將就戮、彼其拯之兮。

垂聽被囚者之歎息、解救將死之人、

主自九天上。監臨人間世。

to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”

He heard the groans of the prisoners. He set free those who were sentenced to death.”

to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,

to hear the groans of the prisoners, to release those condemned to die.

To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death,

To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,

To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

Let the groans of the prisoners reach you; according to your great power, preserve those condemned to die.

executing justice for the exploited and giving food to the hungry. The LORD frees prisoners.

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;to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort all who mourn,to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the LORD to glorify him.

Then the LORD said,“ I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home?”

King Hazael of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz,but the LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and turned toward them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them. Even now he has not banished them from his presence.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless cistern.Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you.

So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.He prayed to him, and the LORD was receptive to his prayer. He granted his request and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the LORD is God.

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the fighting men are terrified.For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.“ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty dish; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies; he has vomited me out.Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon,” says the inhabitant of Zion.“ Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.God saw the Israelites, and God knew.

Then Jehoahaz sought the LORD’s favor, and the LORD heard him, for he saw the oppression the king of Aram inflicted on Israel.

When Herod was about to bring him out for trial, that very night 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!” And the chains fell off his wrists.“ Get dressed,” the angel told him,“ and put on your sandals.” And he did.“ Wrap your cloak around you,” he told him,“ and follow me.”So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what the angel did was really happening, but he thought he was seeing a vision.After they passed the first and second guards, 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 suddenly the angel left him.When Peter came to himself, he 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.”

From the city, men groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime.