Isaiah 49:24

Shall the malko'ach (plunder, prey, booty) be taken from the gibbor; 1 shall the shevi tzaddik be delivered? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

In Context

23And melachim shall be thy omenim (foster fathers, supporters, nurturers), 1 and their sarot thy wet nurses; 1 they shall bow down before thee with their face toward eretz, 1 and lick the aphar of thy raglayim; 1 and thou shalt know that I am Hashem; 1 for they shall not be put to shame that wait for Me. 1

25But thus saith Hashem: 1 Even the Shevi gibbor shall be taken, 1 and the malko'ach of the aritz (the fierce, the tyrant) shall escape; 1 for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, 1 and I will save thy banim. 1

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Cross References

Ezra 9:9For we were avadim; yet Eloheinu hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended chesed unto us in the sight of the Melachim of Paras (Persia), to give us a reviving, to set up the Beis Eloheinu, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim.

Nehemiah 9:33Howbeit Thou art tzaddik in all that is brought upon us; for Thou hast done emes, but we have done wrong;

Psalms 124:6Baruch Hashem, 1 Who hath not given us up 1 as a prey to their shinayim (teeth). 1

Isaiah 42:22But this is Am (People) robbed and looted; 1 they are all of them snared in holes, 1 or hidden in batei kela'im (dungeons): 1 they are for plunder, 1 and none delivereth; 1 for loot, and none saith, Give it back! 1

Jeremiah 25:6And go not after elohim acherim to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke Me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

Ezekiel 37:3And He said unto me, Ben Adam, can these atzmot live? And I answered, Adonoi Hashem, 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 →

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