Bring my soul out of prison - Bring me out of my present condition, which is like a prison. I am, as it were, shut up; I am surroun…

Out of prison.—This expre ion, which must certainly be figurative of distre , probably led to the inscription.

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Deliver me from my persecutors: for they are stronger than I.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name:

Bring my soul out of prison
Not out of purgatory, to which some Popish writers wrest these words very absurdly; nor …

There can be no situation so distressing or dangerous in which faith will not find comfort from God through prayer. We tend to focus too much on ou…