A Prayer for Deliverance
Psalms 79:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- KJV
- Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;thy…: Heb. thine armpreserve…: Heb. reserve the children of death
- WEB
- Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
- ASV
- Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;
- LSV
- Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before You, || According to the greatness of Your arm, || Leave the sons of death.
- YLT
- Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death.
- DBY
- Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;
- DRC78:11
- 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.
- GNV
- Let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to thy mightie arme preserue the children of death,
- JPS
- Let the groaning of the prisoner come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power set free those that are appointed to death;
- LXXE78:11
- Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones.i. e. men appointed to die.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- תָּ֤ב֣וֹא לְפָנֶיךָ֮ אֶנְקַ֪ת אָ֫סִ֥יר כְּגֹ֥דֶל זְרוֹעֲךָ֑ ה֝וֹתֵ֗ר בְּנֵ֣י תְמוּתָֽה׃
- LXX-Br78:11
- Εἰσελθέτω ἐνώπιόν σου ὁ στεναγμὸς τῶν πεπεδημένων, κατὰ τὴν μεγαλωσύνην τοῦ βραχίονός σου περιποίησαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν τεθανατωμένων.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Isaiah 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- Psalms 146:6–7the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever. He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Isaiah 33:2O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
- Psalms 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Exodus 2:23–24After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. So God heard their groaning, and He remembered…
- Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Ephesians 3:20Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Numbers 14:17–19So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared: ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the…
- Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 78:11 in some Bibles
- 79:11 in most Bibles