Psalms 142:7 meaning and explanation

Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

Psalms 142:7, Berean Standard Bible

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David, hiding in a cave from pursuers who are too strong for him, ends his prayer by asking God to free his soul from prison. The word is nephesh, his whole self, and the prison is his trapped, hunted condition rather than a literal cell.

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