Isaiah 49:24
Will anyone take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 slaves, yet in our servitude the Lord our God has not deserted us; and he has extended favor to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to give us a quickening, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 42:22And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
Jeremiah 25:6Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.
Ezekiel 37:3And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou 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 →