Isaiah 49:24 Cross References - Thomson

²⁴ [a] Can any one take spoils from a giant? [b] And if any one captivate unjustly shall he be safe.

⁹ Though we are slaves, the Lord our God hath not quite forsaken us, but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, by their raising up the house of our God, and repairing the desolations thereof, and giving us an enclosure in Juda and Jerusalem.

¹³ Now after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for this our great transgression; though there is no God like our God; though thou hast blotted out our iniquities and given us deliverance;

³³ Thou indeed art righteous in all that have come upon us. For thou hast acted with truth; but we have sinned greatly.

³⁷ and its abundant fruits belong to those kings whom for our sins thou hast set over us, and who have dominion over our bodies, and who can do with our cattle what they please, so that we are in great affliction.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth! ⁷ Our soul hath escaped as a bird from the fowler's snare. The snare was broken and we have escaped.

¹ A Song of the steps. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion; we were like them who are comforted. ² Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation; then did they say among the nations, "The Lord hath done great things for them." ³ The Lord hath done great things for us; we are transported with rapturous joy.

²² Whereupon I beheld and the people were plundered and dispersed: for the snare was every where in the private chambers, and in the houses also where they had hidden themselves. They were for a prey and there was no rescuer; for a spoil; and there was none who said, Restore.

¹² therefore he shall inherit many and divide the spoils of the strong. [p] Because his soul was delivered up to death and he was numbered among transgressors and bore away the sins of many and on account of their iniquities was delivered up;

⁶ Go not after strange gods to serve them, and worship them, that you may not provoke me by the works of your hands to bring evils upon you. ⁷ But you hearkened not to me. ⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Since you have not believed my words, ⁹ behold I am sending, and I will take a family from the north and bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a desolation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach.

¹¹ And the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be slaves among the nations seventy years. ¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will indeed bring against that land all these words of mine which I have spoken against it; all the things which are written in this book which Jeremias prophesied against the nations, ¹⁴ [Omitted]

³ And he said to me, Son of man, shall these bones revive? Whereupon I said, Lord, Lord, thou knowest such things.

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow."

²⁹ How can anyone enter the house of the strong and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one, in which case he may then plunder his house.

²¹ While the strong one armed guardeth his court, his goods are safe. ²² But when one stronger than he attacketh and overcometh him, he taketh from him his armour on which he relied. Then he divideth his spoils.