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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 else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (Matt. 12:29)
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the captivity of the just.

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Ezek. 37:3,11• 3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
 11Then 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 for our parts. (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 they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. (Isa. 42:22)
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Isa. 53:12• 12Therefore will I divide 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 he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isa. 53:12)
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Psa. 124:6‑7• 6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as 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 are escaped. (Psa. 124:6‑7)
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Psa. 126:1‑3• 1<<A Song of degrees.>> When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
 2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
 3The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. (Psa. 126:1‑3)
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Matt. 12:29• 29Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (Matt. 12:29)
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Luke 11:21‑22• 21When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
 22But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. (Luke 11:21‑22)
lawful captive.
Heb. captivity of the just.
Ezra 9:9,13• 9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto 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 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• 33Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
 37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also 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 works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
 7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
 8Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
 9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and 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 punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
 13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even 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 works of their own 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?