Isaiah 49:24
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or shall the captive of the victor escape?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
In Context
Cross References
Ezra 9:9For we are bondmen: yet in our bondage hath our God not forsaken us, but hath extended unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to exalt the house of our God, and to erect again its ruins, and to give us a fence in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 9:33Nevertheless thou art righteous in all that is come over us; for thou hast acted [according to] truth, but we have done wickedly.
Psalms 124:6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us up as a prey to their teeth.
Isaiah 42:22But it is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them ensnared in holes, and in prison-houses are they hidden: they are become for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Jeremiah 25:6And go not after other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not injure you.
Ezekiel 37:3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live! And I said, O Lord Eternal, thou alone knowest this.
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 →