Psalms 107:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For He hath broken doors of brass, And bars of iron He hath cut.

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  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut: 2 `I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,
  • Mic 2:13 : 13 Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head!
  • Judg 16:3 : 3 And Samson lieth down till the middle of the night, and riseth in the middle of the night, and layeth hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side posts, and removeth them with the bar, and putteth on his shoulders, and taketh them up unto the top of the hill, which `is' on the front of Hebron.

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  • Ps 107:12-15
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    12And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

    13And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them.

    14He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

    15They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men.

  • 17Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

  • 12Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?

  • Ps 107:19-21
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    19And cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them,

    20He sendeth His word and healeth them, And delivereth from their destructions.

    21They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

  • 8They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men.

  • Ps 118:18-20
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    18Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

    19Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them -- I thank Jah.

    20This `is' the gate to Jehovah, The righteous enter into it.

  • 13For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

  • 10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

  • 10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

  • 13And now I break his rod from off thee, And thy bands I do draw away.

  • 31They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

  • 18His bones `are' tubes of brass, His bones `are' as a bar of iron.

  • 8To bind their kings with chains, And their honoured ones with fetters of iron,

  • 4Jehovah `is' righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.

  • 14Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

  • 2`I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,

  • 6And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

  • 40Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

  • 14He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

  • 27He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.

  • 3There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.

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    3`Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

  • 18They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

  • 17He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

  • 19and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

  • 13Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head!

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    9Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

  • 35Teaching my hands for battle, And brought down was a bow of brass by mine arms,

  • 13`Go, and thou hast spoken unto Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Yokes of wood thou hast broken, and I have made instead of them yokes of iron;

  • 34Teaching my hands for battle, And a bow of brass was brought down by my arms.

  • 4Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

  • 15Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

  • 12By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.

  • 6And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distress He delivereth them,

  • 4Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as `in' the day of Midian.

  • 28And they cry to Jehovah in their adversity, And from their distresses He bringeth them out.

  • 7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

  • 7Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!

  • 6Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.

  • 10The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

  • 5Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

  • 24He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.

  • 21Blessed `is' Jehovah, For He hath made marvellous His kindness To me in a city of bulwarks.