Verse 25
Isaiah 49:25
World English Bible
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But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the plunder retrieved from the fierce;
for I will contend with him who contends with you,
and I will save your children.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּי כֹ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה גַּם שְׁבִ֤י גִבּוֹר֙ יֻקָּ֔ח וּ/מַלְק֥וֹחַ עָרִ֖יץ יִמָּלֵ֑ט וְ/אֶת יְרִיבֵ/ךְ֙ אָנֹכִ֣י אָרִ֔יב וְ/אֶת בָּנַ֖יִ/ךְ אָנֹכִ֥י אוֹשִֽׁיעַ
English Translation
For thus says the LORD: Even a mighty captive will be taken, and the plunder of a tyrant will be rescued; and I will contend with your adversaries, and I will save your children.
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Chapter 49 Context
1
Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
from the...
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2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me...
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3
He said to me, “You are my servant;
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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4
But I said, “I have labored in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the ju...
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5
Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob again to him,
and...
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6
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ja...
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7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nat...
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8
Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you...
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9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They s...
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10
They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:
for he who has mercy o...
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11
I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.
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12
Behold, these shall come from afar;
and behold, these from the north and from the west;
and these fr...
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13
Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth;
and break out into singing, mountains:
for Yahweh has comforted...
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14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Y...
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16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
your walls are continually before me.
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17
Your children hurry.
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
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18
Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I l...
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19
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now...
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20
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a p...
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21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my c...
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22
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and lift up my banner to...
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23
Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you...
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24
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered?
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25
But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the plunder retrieved fro...
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I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
and they will be drunk on their own blood, a...
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