Isaiah 49:24

Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, 2 or the lawful captives be delivered? 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Kings shall be your foster fathers, 2 and their queens your nursing mothers. 1 They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, 2 and lick the dust of your feet; 1 Then you will know that I am Adonai; 2 and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.” 1

25But Adonai says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, 2 and the plunder retrieved from the fierce; 1 for I will contend with him who contends with you, 2 and I will save your children. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 124:6Blessed be Adonai, 2 who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. 1

Isaiah 42:22But this is a robbed and plundered people. 2 All of them are snared in holes, 2 and they are hidden in prisons. 1 They have become captives, and no one delivers; 2 and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ 1

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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