Psalm 102:20 {101:21}
Good News Translation
He heard the groans of prisoners and set free those who were condemned to die.

New Revised Standard Version
to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;

Contemporary English Version
He listened to the groans of prisoners, and he rescued everyone who was doomed to die."

New American Bible
To attend to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

to hear

Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

Psalm 146:7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Exodus 2:23-25 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . .

Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

2 Kings 13:4,22,23 But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them: . . .

Job 24:12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

Isaiah 14:17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

Isaiah 61:1-3 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up. . . .

Jeremiah 51:34,35 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out. . . .

Zechariah 9:9-12 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. . . .

to loose

2 Chronicles 33:11-13 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon. . . .

Jeremiah 51:32-34 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. . . .

Acts 12:6-11 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. . . .

those that are appointed to.

Ephesians 2:2,3 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: . . .

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
19Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. 20That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:21That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;…
Cross References
Psalm 68:6
God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

Psalm 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

Psalm 107:10
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Psalm 146:7
Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Psalm 102:19
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