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Psalms 107:16
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For he broke down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
For he has broken the gates of bronze, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
He breaks down bronze gates and cuts apart iron bars.
For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron asunder.
For He has shattered the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron apart.
For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.
For he al to-brak brasun yatis; and he brak yrun barris.
For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
He breaks down bronze gates and shatters iron locks.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
For he shattered bronze doors and cut through iron bars.
For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.
He breaks down their bronze gates. He shatters their iron bars.
For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
For he hath broken the gates of brasse: and cut the barres of yron in sunder.
For He has broken gates of brass and cut through walls of iron.
For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.
For hee hath broken the gates of brasse, and brast the barres of yron asunder.
For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron asunder.
He breaks down doors of bronze and smashes iron bars.
For he brake in pieces the doors of bronze, And, the bars of iron, he hewed asunder.
(106-16) Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.
For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.
For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder.
For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.
For he has broken down the bronze gatesand cut through the iron bars.
For he has broken the gates of brass, And cut through bars of iron.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
for he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts through the bars of iron.
For He has broken the gates of bronze; and He cut bars of iron in two.
For He hath broken doors of brass, And bars of iron He hath cut.
For he hath broken the gates of brasse, & smitte the barres of yron in sonder.
For He has shattered gates of bronze And cut off bars of iron.
For He has broken the gates of bronze, And cut the bars of iron in two.
For He has shattered gates of bronze And cut bars of iron asunder.
For He has shattered the doors of bronzeAnd cut through the bars of iron.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Judges 16:3, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, Micah 2:13
Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:22 - lest Jeremiah 40:1 - bound Jeremiah 51:30 - her bars Nahum 3:13 - the gates Romans 7:25 - thank God
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he hath broken the gates of brass,.... The prison doors made of brass, as sometimes of iron, for the security of the prisoners; see Acts 12:10. And cut the bars of iron in sunder; with which they were barred and secured. Hyperbolical phrases these, as Kimchi, expressing how exceeding strong the prison doors were, and the impossibility of an escape out of them, unless the Lord had delivered them; but when he works, none can let; all obstructions are easily removed by him; which is the sense of the words, see Isaiah 45:2. Vitringa, on Revelation 12:2, interprets this of the subjection of the Roman emperors to the faith and obedience of Christ.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For he hath broken the gates of brass - The immediate “reason” here given for praising the Lord is that he had “broken the gates of brass,” continuing the thought from Psalms 107:10-14. In the previous part of the psalm, in giving a reason for praising the Lord, the fact that he feeds the hungry was selected Psalms 107:9 because in the preceding part the allusion was to the sufferings of hunger and thirst Psalms 107:4-5; here the fact that he had broken the gates of brass is selected, because the allusion in the immediately preceding verses Psalms 107:12-14 was to their imprisonment. In the construction of the psalm there is great regularity. The “gates of brass” refer probably to Babylon; and the idea is, that their deliverance had been as if the brass gates of that great city had been broken down to give them free egress from their captivity. Thus the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus is announced in similar language: “I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron,” Isaiah 45:2. See the notes at that passage.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 107:16. For he hath broken — This is the reason given for thanks to God for his deliverance of the captives. It was not a simple deliverance; it was done so as to manifest the irresistible power of God. He tore the prison in pieces, and cut the bars of iron asunder.
