Isaiah 49:25
For thus said YHWH: “Even the captive of the mighty is taken, || And the prey of the terrible is delivered, || And I strive with your striver, and I save your sons.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?
Cross References
Genesis 12:3And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you.”
Numbers 23:8How do I pierce [when] God has not pierced? And how am I indignant [when] YHWH has not been indignant?
Isaiah 14:2And peoples have taken them, || And have brought them to their place, || And the house of Israel has inherited them, || On the land of YHWH, || For menservants and for maidservants, || And they have been captors of their captors, || And have ruled over their exactors.
Isaiah 35:4Say to the hurried of heart, “Be strong, || Do not fear, behold, your God; vengeance comes, || The repayment of God, || He Himself comes and saves you.”
Isaiah 41:12You seek them, and do not find them, || The men who debate with you, || They are as nothing, indeed, as nothing, || The men who war with you.
Isaiah 52:2Shake yourself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, || Bands of your neck have loosed themselves, || O captive daughter of Zion.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:25-26
Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus saith the Lord , Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour… Read the whole commentary →