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Psalm 142:7

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

5I cried to you, LORD. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.
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Notice

The plea to leave prison looks toward thanks and the company of the righteous, even while the speaker still needs God to bring him out.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 143:11Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.Both prayers ask God to bring the speaker’s soul out of distress and connect that plea with God’s name.
Psalm 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.Psalm 142 asks for release from prison; Psalm 146 declares that the LORD frees prisoners.
Psalm 7:6–7Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.Both prayers seek God’s intervention in distress, with Psalm 7 naming adversaries and Psalm 142 asking for release.
Psalm 35:27Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity …Both passages connect God’s goodness toward his servant with praise and the presence of people who support a righteous cause.
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.Both speak of release through God’s action: the psalm asks to leave prison, while Acts describes release from death.
Isaiah 61:1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim …The psalm’s plea to leave prison shares Isaiah’s language of liberty for captives and release for those who are bound.
James 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of …Both speak of the Lord’s goodness amid suffering, though James names Job’s endurance and the psalm asks for release.
Romans 7:23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.Both use captivity language, though Romans names captivity under sin and the psalm asks God to bring the speaker out of prison.
Where this verse fits

Loneliness. waiting. injustice and anger.

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Encouragement

The prayer ends before release is reported. Your plea for help need not wait for relief; the speaker trusts God’s goodness while still asking to be brought out.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).