Isaiah 49:24

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."

25But thus says 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 who contends with you, and I will save your children.

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Cross References

Ezra 9:9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

Psalms 124:6Blessed be the Lord,who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Isaiah 42:22But this is a robbed and plundered people.All of them are snared in holes,and they are hidden in prisons.They have become a prey, and no one delivers;and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

Jeremiah 25:6and do not go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

Ezekiel 37:3He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I answered, "Lord God, you know."

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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