Let the groaning of the imprisoned come in before you; in accord with the greatness of your arm preserve those doomed to die.
“The Lord looked down from the holy heights, viewed the earth from heaven,
To attend to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die.”
Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?”
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, take heart!
Lord, be gracious to us; for you we wait. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble!
To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one.
Now to him who is able to accomplish far more than all we ask or imagine, by the power at work within us,