Psalms 107:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
  • Rom 6:20-21 : 20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • Exod 2:23-24 : 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. 24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
  • 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
  • Job 36:8-9 : 8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble, 9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
  • Ps 105:18 : 18 His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
  • Lam 3:6-7 : 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:13-19
    7 verses
    80%

    13 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

    14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

    15 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

    16 The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

    17 Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

    18 They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

    19 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • 8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

  • 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • 11 Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

  • 18 His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;

  • 8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

  • 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • 39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

  • 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;

  • 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Lam 3:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • 9 He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.

  • Ps 107:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

    6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

  • 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

  • 10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

  • 11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;

  • 15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

  • 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

  • 6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Ps 107:26-28
    3 verses
    70%

    26 The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

    27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

    28 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

  • 3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • 7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

  • 10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

  • 11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

  • 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • 10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • 10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • 25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.