Isaiah 49:24
Can loot be taken from a warrior? Can prisoners be rescued from a dictator?
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In The King James Version
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
In Context
Cross References
Ezra 9:9Though we are slaves, our God did not abandon us in our slavery, but he showed us his trustworthy love by making the kings of Persia kind to us, by reviving us so we could rebuild the Temple of our God and repair its ruined state, and by giving us a wall of protection around Judah and Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 9:33But you have done what is right regarding everything that has happened to us. You have always acted faithfully, while we have done so much evil.
Psalms 124:6Praise the Lord, who didn't hand us over to them as prey to be ripped apart by their teeth.
Isaiah 42:22But this people ended up robbed and raided, all of them trapped in holes or hidden in prisons. They have been stolen like loot, with no one to save them from being someone's prize, no one to say “Give them back!”
Jeremiah 25:6Don't follow other gods and worship them, and don't anger me by making idols. Then I won't do anything to hurt you.
Ezekiel 37:3Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come back to life?” “Lord God, only you know the answer,” I replied.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:19-24
Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost… Read the whole commentary →