Isaiah 49:24 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 49:24

Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty “Shall the prey seized by the terrible be rescued” - For צדיק tsaddik, read עריץ arits. A palpable mistake, like that in Isa 42:19. The correction is self-evident from the very terms of the sentence; from the necessity of the strict correspondence in the expressions between the question and the answer made to it, - and it is apparent to the blindest and most prejudiced eye.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Shall the prey - Here is a double impediment to their deliverance, the power of the enemy who kept them in bondage, and the justice of God which pleads against their deliverance.

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Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3462: “To the Rescue” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1915)

IN the days when this prophecy was written, there were certain great nations of the earth that sought and obtained their wealth, not by commerce, but by force—not by fair trading, but by fiercely invading their richer neighbors. The Babylonians and the Chaldeans gathered together great armies and then pounced upon small territories, such as those at Israel and Judea, and carried off all the substance of the inhabitants as a prey. When the marauding host, flushed with victory, was returning home with its booty, it would have been a very dangerous thing to attempt to rescue the spoil.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲיֻקַּ֥ח	ha.yu.Kach	¿ will it be taken	H3947 →
מִגִּבּ֖וֹר	mi.gi.Bor	from a warrior	H1368 →
מַלְק֑וֹחַ	mal.Ko.ach	booty	H4455 →
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and or?	H518 →
שְׁבִ֥י	she.Vi	[the] captive[s] of	H7628 →
צַדִּ֖יק	tza.Dik	[the] righteous	H6662 →
יִמָּלֵֽט׃	yi.ma.Let	will it escape	H4422 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 37:3
Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
leads to
- John 11:25–26
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- John 5:21
  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
- Deuteronomy 32:39
  See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
Through
Matthew 12:29
Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
leads to
- Mark 3:27
  Indeed, no one can enter a strong man’s house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
- Luke 11:21–22
  When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.
- 1 John 4:4
  You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- Revelation 20:7–9
  When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
Through
Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send…
leads to
- Psalms 102:20
  to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Isaiah