Isaiah 49:24
Shall the prey be taken away from the mighty? Or shall the spoil of the terrible be rescued?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 124:6Blessed be the LORD, Who hath not given us a prey to their teeth!
Isaiah 42:22And yet it is a robbed and plundered people; They are all of them bound in prisons, And hid in dungeons; They have become a spoil, and none delivereth; A prey, and none saith, “Restore!”
Jeremiah 25:6And go not after strange gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.”
Ezekiel 37:3And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord Jehovah, thou knowest!
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 →