689 verses about Freedom

“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

(Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,

“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

“Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

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

The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.

He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

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

For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;

To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers; and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

The captive exile will speedily be freed; and he will not die and go down into the pit, and his bread will not fail.

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!