Quotes about Liberation
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
— Leviticus 26:13
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
— Deuteronomy 15:12
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
— Deuteronomy 15:18
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
— Esther 8:11
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
— Job 3:18
Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
— Job 3:19
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
— Job 36:16
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
— Job 39:5
“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
— Psalm 2:3
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
— Psalm 81:6
The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.
— Psalm 105:20
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
— Psalm 124:7