Psalms 107:16
For hee hath broken the gates of brasse, and brast the barres of yron asunder.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
In Context
17Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.
Cross References
Judges 16:3And Samson slept till midnight, and arose at midnight, and tooke the doores of the gates of the citie, and the two postes and lift them away with the barres, and put them vpon his shoulders, and caried them vp to the top of the mountaine that is before Hebron.
Isaiah 45:2I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:11-17
The Divine Goodness towards Prisoners. 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh… Read the whole commentary →