Quotes about Captivity

Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

Oppression and opposition to Jews is nothing new in world history. The descendants of Abraham were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, then the ten northern tribes were captured by the Assyrians in 722 BC and the two southern tribes by the Babylonians in 586 BC. (Granted, these captivities were due to the Jews' sins.)

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society in the West stands on the verge of relative if not absolute decline, and much of the Christian Church in both Europe and North America is in a sorry state of weakness, confusion, unfaithfulness and cultural captivity.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.