Isaiah 49:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Even

1 John 3:8

I will contend

I will save

Isaiah 54:13

Galatians 4:26

General references

Bible References

Even

At that time, his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck. Indeed, the yoke will be broken, because you've become obese."

Shake yourself from the dust and arise, and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem! Loosen the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

"For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.

"Israel is a scattered flock, driven out by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria, and then afterward King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnawed his bones.

Now concerning you and my blood covenant with you, I have liberated your prisoners from a waterless pit.

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.

I will contend

"Look! All who are enraged at you will be put to shame and disgraced; those who contend with you will all die.

Watch! If anyone does attack you, it will not be from me; whoever may attack you will fall because of you.

I'll bless those who bless you, but I'll curse the one who curses you, and through you all the people of the earth will be blessed."

But how can I curse those whom God hasn't cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD hasn't denounced?

May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon," says the inhabitant of Zion. "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.

For I have bent Judah as if it were my bow, loading it with Ephraim. I raised up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, wielding you like a mighty warrior's sword."

It will come about at that time that I will make Jerusalem a heavy weight; so everyone who burdens themselves with it will be crushed, even though all of the nations of the earth gather themselves against it.

Then the LORD will go out to battle against those nations, waging war as in a day of battle.

What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Be happy about her, heaven, saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has condemned her for you!"

I will save

Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.

But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

General references

Therefore strong nations will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

But when a stronger man than he attacks and defeats him, the stronger man strips off that man's armor in which he trusted and then divides his plunder.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"