689 verses about Freedom

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!

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

“Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.

In righteousness you will be established. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid; and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land, they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;

Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;