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who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
⛓ Read Psalm 146 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Acts 16:25-34
'The LORD looseth the prisoners' as a signature of God's saving character; the loosing of every prisoner's bonds dramatizes this divine attribute. Direct thematic match.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Acts 5:17-26 ?
'The LORD sets the prisoners free' — the angelic jailbreak (vv. 19-23) enacts the psalm's portrait of God liberating the captive.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Psalm 146