He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

他从黑暗中和死荫里领他们出来，折断他们的绑索。

他从黑暗中、从死荫里领他们出来，扯断他们的捆绑。

他从黑暗中、从死荫里领他们出来，扯断他们的捆绑。

祂带领他们脱离黑暗和死亡的阴影，断开他们的锁链。

他从黑暗里和死荫中把他们领出来，弄断他们的锁链。

他把他们从黑暗和死荫里领出来，拉断他们的绳索。

他從黑暗中和死蔭裏領他們出來，折斷他們的綁索。

他從黑暗中、從死蔭裏領他們出來，扯斷他們的捆綁。

他從黑暗中、從死蔭裏領他們出來，扯斷他們的捆綁。

祂帶領他們脫離黑暗和死亡的陰影，斷開他們的鎖鏈。

他從黑暗裡和死蔭中把他們領出來，弄斷他們的鎖鍊。

永恆主就領了他們從幽暗漆黑中出來，掙開他們的捆綁。

他把他們從黑暗和死蔭裡領出來，拉斷他們的繩索。

導出幽暗死蔭、斷其縶維兮、

脫之於患難陰翳之地、斷其縶維兮、

從幽暗死陰中救之使出、折斷拘之之縲絏、

忽然開朗。天地一新。主實垂憐。桎梏脫身。

He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.

He brought them out of the deepest darkness. He broke their chains off.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death And broke their bands apart.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.

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

He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

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

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

LORD, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You have loosened my bonds.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on paths they have not known. I will turn darkness to light in front of them and rough places into level ground. This is what I will do for them, and I will not abandon them.

Others sat in darkness and gloom— prisoners in cruel chains—

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.

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

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Someone came and reported to them,“ Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”

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;

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

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

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for eighteen years— shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the LORD tested him.The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.But Paul called out in a loud voice,“ Don’t harm yourself, because we’re all here!”The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.He escorted them out and said,“ Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”They said,“ Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved— you and your household.”And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized.He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say,“ Release those men.”The jailer reported these words to Paul:“ The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. So come out now and go in peace.”But Paul said to them,“ They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to send us away secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out.”The police reported these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.So they came to appease them, and escorting them from prison, they urged them to leave town.After leaving the jail, they came to Lydia’s house, where they saw and encouraged the brothers and sisters, and departed.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the LORD had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold earring.So the LORD blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

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.

God provides homes for those who are deserted. He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a scorched land.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD shines over you.For look, darkness will cover the earth, and total darkness the peoples; but the LORD will shine over you, and his glory will appear over you.Nations will come to your light, and kings to your shining brightness.

in order to turn him back from the Pit, so he may shine with the light of life.

If people are bound with chains and trapped by the cords of affliction,

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it. May what darkens the day terrify it.

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.

saying to the prisoners,“ Come out,” and to those who are in darkness,“ Show yourselves.” They will feed along the pathways, and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

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

He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword.

He will not escape from the darkness; flames will wither his shoots, and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.