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The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners,
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So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
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“If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
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You brought us into prison and laid burdens on our backs.
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God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
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May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
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to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
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Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,
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Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.
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He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free,
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The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
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All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.
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They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.
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to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
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But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”
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The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
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The Year of the Lord’s Favor
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
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Jeremiah in Prison
Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim.
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Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.
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They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.
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Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
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Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
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The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
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Jehoiachin Released
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
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So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.
