the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Isaiah 49:24
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"Can the prey be taken from the mighty man,Or the captives of the righteous be granted escape?"
"Can the prey be taken from the mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"
Shall the spoyle be taken from the mightie? or the lawfull prisoner from the taker?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? and shall he that is rightfully captive be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,Or the captives of the righteous [fn] be delivered?
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the righteous captive escape?
If a strong soldier takes a prisoner, can you set him free? If a powerful soldier guards someone, can the prisoner escape?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
Shall the pray be taken from the mightie, or the lawfull captiue deliuered?
Who spoyleth the giaunte of his pray? or who taketh the presoner from the mightie?
Can plunder be retrieved from a giant, prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant? But God says, "Even if a giant grips the plunder and a tyrant holds my people prisoner, I'm the one who's on your side, defending your cause, rescuing your children. And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves, killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction. Then everyone will know that I, God , have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob."
"Can the spoils of war be taken from the mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Can the wealth a soldier wins in war be taken away from him? Can a prisoner be freed from a powerful soldier?
Can spoils be taken from a warrior, or captives be rescued from a conqueror?
Is it possible to rescue victims from someone strong and cruel?
But can booty be wrested from a warrior? Can a victor's captives be freed?
Shall the pray be taken from the mightie? or the iust captiuitie deliuered?
Can the prey be taken away from the mighty, or a giants captives be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of the victorious be delivered?
Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior? Who can demand that a tyrant let his captives go?
"Can that which was taken by a strong man in battle be taken from him? Can those taken away to prison by a powerful ruler be saved?"
Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?
Shall prey, be taken from a mighty one? Or the captive of one in the right, be delivered?
Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was taken by the mighty, be delivered?
Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteous person be rescued?
Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?
"Can the prey be taken from a mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"
Can you take away a soldier's loot? Can you rescue the prisoners of a tyrant?
Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of the righteous be delivered?
Whether prey schal be takun awei fro a strong man? ether that that is takun of a stalworthe man, mai be saaf?
Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?
Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Shall: Ezekiel 37:3, Ezekiel 37:11
prey: Isaiah 42:22, Isaiah 53:12, Psalms 124:6, Psalms 124:7, Psalms 126:1-3, Matthew 12:29, Luke 11:21, Luke 11:22
lawful captive: Heb. captivity of the just, Ezra 9:9, Ezra 9:13, Nehemiah 9:33, Nehemiah 9:37, Jeremiah 25:6-9, Jeremiah 25:11-14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Judges 5:12 - lead Isaiah 5:29 - lay hold Isaiah 40:10 - with strong hand Isaiah 61:1 - to proclaim Jeremiah 15:21 - deliver Jeremiah 31:11 - redeemed Jeremiah 50:33 - and all Micah 2:13 - breaker Nahum 2:13 - I will cut Mark 3:27 - General Mark 5:15 - him that Luke 4:18 - to preach deliverance Luke 8:35 - and found John 8:36 - General John 12:31 - now John 16:11 - the Acts 26:18 - and from Colossians 1:13 - delivered Colossians 2:15 - having Revelation 20:2 - he laid
Cross-References
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,.... This is an objection to the accomplishment of what is predicted and promised above, taken from the power of the enemy, and his right to detain the people; and are either the words of the nations among whom the Jews were, according to Kimchi, boasting of, and presuming upon, and opposing to what is said, both their might and right, to keep the people in their own hands, bidding as it were defiance to any to attempt to take them from them; or the words of the prophet, in the name of the people, as Aben Ezra, objecting to their deliverance, doubting the effecting of it, or admiring at it: it may be applied to the taking of the Lord's people out of the hands of Satan, who may be said to be "mighty" or "strong", as he appears to be from his nature, a spirit; from his names, the strong man armed, a roaring lion, the great red dragon, leviathan, the piercing serpent, c. and from his power and dominion over the evil angels, and over men, both their bodies and souls; and to whom the Lord's own people are a "prey", while they are in a state of nature, as all mankind, and every unconverted man, be; a difficult thing it is to take any out of his hands, and a wonder of grace it is when it is done:
or the lawful captive delivered? justly and lawfully taken captive in war, as the Jews were by the Babylonians: or, "the captivity of the righteous be delivered" t; that is, either the righteous who were taken captives; or those that took them, who were so in their opinion, at least with respect to the taking of them, doing, as they judged, what was lawful and just. The people of God are in their state of nature led by Satan at his will, and are lawful captives in the judgment of him, and his principalities; and are in reality taken in war by him, and not only led captive by him at his will, but with their own will, and are justly given up unto him. Perhaps all this may be better referred to the people of God being a prey to the Romish antichrist, and detained as a lawful captive by him, and to the difficult and wonderful deliverance of them from him in the latter day; see Revelation 13:4. The Targum interprets this and the following verse of the captives of Esau and Ishmael, by whom seem to be meant the Pope and Turk.
t ואם שבי צדיק ימלט "et an captivitas justi evadet", Montanus; "vel liberabitur", Munster; "captiva turba justi", Vitringa. And by the righteous Gussetius (Ebr. Comment. p. 709.) understands God the Father, who is righteous as a judge, exercising vindictive justice; and from him another person delivers us, namely, God the Son, the Messiah. A sense truly evangelical.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? - This seems to be the language of Zion. It is not exactly the language of incredulity; it is the language of amazement and wonder. God had made great promises. He had promised a restoration of the captive Jews to their own land, and of their complete deliverance from the power of the Chaldeans. He had still further promised that the blessings of the true religion should be extended to the Gentiles, and that kings and queens should come and show the profoundest adoration for God and for his cause. With amazement and wonder at the greatness of these promises, with a full view of the difficulties to be surmounted, Zion asks here how it can be accomplished. It would involve the work of taking the prey from a mighty conqueror, and delivering the captive from the hand of the strong and the terrible - a work which had not been usually done.
Or the lawful captive delivered? - Margin, ‘The captivity of the just.’ Lowth reads this, ‘Shall the prey seized by the terrible be rescued?’ So Noyes. Lowth says of the present Hebrew text, that the reading is a ‘palpable mistake;’ and that instead of צדיק tsadiyq (“the just”), the meaning should be עריץ ‛ârı̂yts (“the terrible”). Jerome so read it, and renders it, A robusto - ‘The prey taken by the strong.’ So the Syriac reads it. The Septuagint renders it, ‘If anyone is taken captive unjustly (ἀδίκως adikōs), shall he be saved?’ But there is no authority from the manuscripts for changing the present reading of the Hebrew text; and it is not necessary. The word ‘just,’ here may either refer to the fact that the just were taken captive, and to the difficulty of rescuing them; or perhaps, as Rosenmuller suggests, it may be taken in the sense of severe, or rigid, standing opposed to benignity or mercy, and thus may be synonymous with severity and harshness; and the meaning may be that it was difficult to rescue a captive from the hands of those who had no clemency or benignity, such as was Babylon. Grotius understands it of those who were taken captive in a just war, or by the rights of war. But the connection rather demands that we should interpret it of those who were made captive by those who were indisposed to clemency, and who were severe and rigid in their treatment of their prisoners. The idea is, that it was difficult or almost impossible to rescue captives from such hands, and that therefore it was a matter of wonder and amazement that that could be accomplished which God here promises.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 49:24. 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 Isaiah 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. However, if authority is also necessary, there is that of the Syriac and Vulgate for it; who plainly read עריץ arits, in Isaiah 49:24 as well as in Isaiah 49:25, rendering it in the former place by the same word as in the latter. - L.
These two last verses contain a glorious promise of deliverance to the persecuted Church of Christ from the terrible one - Satan, and all his representatives and vicegerents, persecuting antichristian rulers. They shall at last cease from destroying the Church of God, and destroy one another.
