Psalms 68:6

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Psalms 68:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds — His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.

5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

6 God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

7 O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah

8 the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

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The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

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For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

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

Psalms 146:7

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Acts 12:6

On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

Acts 12:7

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

Acts 12:8

“Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”

Acts 12:9

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

Acts 12:10

They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.

Acts 12:11

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

Acts 12:12

And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.

Acts 12:13

He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

Acts 12:14

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”

Acts 12:15

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

Acts 12:16

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

Acts 12:17

Peter motioned with his hand for silence, and he described how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Send word to James and to the brothers,” he said, and he left for another place.

Acts 12:18

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:19

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Acts 12:20

Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.

Acts 12:21

On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people.

Acts 12:22

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 12:24

But the word of God continued to spread and multiply.

Acts 12:25

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and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

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Malachi 1:3

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