Psalm 79:11 {78:11}
Good News Translation
Listen to the groans of the prisoners, and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power preserve those doomed to die.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to the prisoners groan! Let your mighty power save all who are sentenced to die.

New American Bible
Let the groaning of the imprisoned come in before you; in accord with the greatness of your arm preserve those doomed to die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

sighing

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Psalm 69:33 For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

Psalm 102:20 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Exodus 2:23,24 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. . . .

Isaiah 42:7 That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

according

Psalm 146:6,7 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. . . .

Numbers 14:17-19 Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying: . . .

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:

thy power.

Isaiah 33:2 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.

Psalm 102:20 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
10Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: 11Let 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.12And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 102:20
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Psalm 79:12
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Psalm 79:10
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