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Isaiah 49

Isa. 49:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Shall the prey
malqowach (Hebrew #4455)
transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken)
KJV usage: booty, jaws, prey.
Pronounce: mal-ko'-akh
Origin: from 3947
be taken
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
from the mighty
gibbowr (Hebrew #1368)
intensive from the same as 1397; powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
KJV usage: champion, chief, X excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.
Pronounce: ghib-bore'
Origin: or (shortened) gibbor {ghib-bore'}
w, or μthe lawful
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
captive
shbiy (Hebrew #7628)
exiled; captured; as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively); by extension, booty
KJV usage: captive(-ity), prisoners, X take away, that was taken.
Pronounce: sheb-ee'
Origin: from 7618
delivered
malat (Hebrew #4422)
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
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Matt. 12:29• 29Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house. (Matt. 12:29)
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the captivity of the just.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ezek. 37:3,11• 3And he said unto me, Son of man, Shall these bones live? And I said, Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
 11And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off! (Ezek. 37:3,11)
prey.
Isa. 42:22• 22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth,--a spoil, and none saith, Restore. (Isa. 42:22)
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Isa. 53:12• 12Therefore will I assign him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and was reckoned with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isa. 53:12)
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Psa. 124:6‑7• 6Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not up a prey to their teeth!
 7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped. (Psa. 124:6‑7)
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Psa. 126:1‑3• 1A Song of degrees. When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
 2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.
 3Jehovah hath done great things for us; and we are joyful. (Psa. 126:1‑3)
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Matt. 12:29• 29Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house. (Matt. 12:29)
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Luke 11:21‑22• 21When the strong man armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;
 22but when the stronger than he coming upon him overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil he has taken from him. (Luke 11:21‑22)
lawful captive.
Heb. captivity of the just.
Ezra 9:9,13• 9For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
 13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this, (Ezra 9:9,13)
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Neh. 9:33,37• 33But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.
 37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress. (Neh. 9:33,37)
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Jer. 25:6‑9,11‑14• 6And go not after other gods, to serve them and to worship them; and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
 7But ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your own hurt.
 8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not listened to my words,
 9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
 11And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
 12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.
 13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
 14For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. (Jer. 25:6‑9,11‑14)
• When this great mercy reaches Israel their plight will be very great, as we may infer from verse 24, and the opening verses of Zechariah 14 confirm the inference. Just when they appear to be the helpless captives of their foes there will be a tremendous intervention of Jehovah for their deliverance. (“Isaiah 49:5-51:16” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? and shall he that is rightfully captive be delivered?