Quotes about Captivity
Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
- Psalm 126:4
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
- Psalm 137:3
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
- Psalm 149:8
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Proverbs 6:5
Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 10:4
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- Isaiah 14:17
The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.
- Isaiah 46:2
The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
- Isaiah 51:14
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
- Jeremiah 6:11
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
- Jeremiah 13:17
The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.
- Jeremiah 13:19
And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
- Jeremiah 20:6