Psalms 107:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 This is what the LORD says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed: 2 “I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.
  • Mic 2:13 : 13 The one who can break through barriers will lead them out they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. Their king will advance before them, The LORD himself will lead them.
  • Judg 16:3 : 3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

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  • Ps 107:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

    12So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up.

    13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

    14He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

    15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

  • 17They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

  • 12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

  • Ps 107:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

    20He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.

    21Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

  • 8Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

  • Ps 118:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

    19Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

    20This is the LORD’s gate– the godly enter through it.

  • 13For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

  • 10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

  • 10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • 13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

  • 31Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

  • 18Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

  • 8They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

  • 4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”

  • 14If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

  • 2“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

  • 6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

  • 40You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

  • 14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

  • 27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

  • 3There he shattered the arrows, the shield, the sword, and the rest of the weapons of war.(Selah)

  • 69%

    3They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

  • 18The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,

  • 17Is this the one who made the world like a wilderness, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’

  • 19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

  • 13The one who can break through barriers will lead them out they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. Their king will advance before them, The LORD himself will lead them.

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    9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • 35He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 13“Go and tell Hananiah that the LORD says,‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

  • 34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 4The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumbled have taken on strength.

  • 15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

  • 6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • 4For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

  • 28They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • 7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

  • 7Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

  • 6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

  • 10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • 5The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.

  • 24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

  • 21The LORD deserves praise for he demonstrated his amazing faithfulness to me when I was besieged by enemies.