Isaiah 49:24
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
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Cross References
Ezra 9:9For we were bond-men; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy 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 the desolations of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 9:33But thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Psalms 124:6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and pillaged; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Jeremiah 25:6And go not after other gods 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 hurt.
Ezekiel 37:3And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? and I answered, O Lord GOD, 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 →