God

Psalm 107:10, 41
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains, . . .

Psalm 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

1 Samuel 2:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

Galatians 4:27
For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman, than of her who has a husband."

families [heb.

Psalm 107:10, 14
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains, . . .

Psalm 146:7
executing justice for the oppressed, giving food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release from darkness to the prisoners,

Acts 12:6
On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

the rebellious

Psalm 107:34, 40
fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:23, 24
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. . . .

Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Malachi 1:3
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."