Psalms 107:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

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  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
  • Mic 2:13 : 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
  • Judg 16:3 : 3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

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  • Ps 107:12-15
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    12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

    13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

    14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

    15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

  • 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

  • Ps 107:19-21
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    19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

    20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

    21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

  • 8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

  • Ps 118:18-20
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    18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

    19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

    20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

  • 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

  • 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

  • 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

  • 13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

  • 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

  • 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

  • 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • 4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

  • 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

  • 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  • 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

  • 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

  • 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

  • 27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

  • 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

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    3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

  • 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

  • 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

  • 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

  • 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

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    9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

  • 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

  • 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

  • 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

  • 12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

  • 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

  • 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

  • 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

  • 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

  • 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

  • 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

  • 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

  • 24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

  • 21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.