Psalm 107:16 {106:16}
Good News Translation
He breaks down doors of bronze and smashes iron bars.

New Revised Standard Version
For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Contemporary English Version
He breaks down bronze gates and shatters iron locks.

New American Bible
For he broke down the gates of bronze and snapped the bars of iron.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.

Judges 16:3 But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

Isaiah 45:1,2 Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. . . .

Micah 2:13 I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
15Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 16Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.17He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.…
Cross References
Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.

Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.

Jeremiah 28:13
Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.

Psalm 107:15
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