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

And this shall happen: on that day, he will remove his burden from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, {and a yoke will be destroyed because of fat}.

Shake yourself free from [the] dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves [from] the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

For thus says Yahweh, '{As soon as the time has passed}, seventy years for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

Israel [is] a sheep scattered, lions drove [them] away. [The] first who devoured it [was] the king of Assyria, and now [at] the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."

[As for] you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from {the waterless pit}.

Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these [same things], in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.

I will contend

Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; {your opponents} shall be like nothing and shall become lost.

If indeed one attacks, [it is] not from me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you.

And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you."

How can I curse [whom] God has not cursed, and how can I denounce [whom] Yahweh has not denounced?

"[May] the violence done to me and to my flesh [be] on Babylon," the inhabitants of Zion will say; and "My blood [be] upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.

For I have bent Judah [as] my bow; I have set Ephraim [as an arrow]. I will set in motion your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Javan. I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.

{And then} on that day I will make Jerusalem a stone weight for all the peoples. All those lifting it up will grievously hurt themselves, and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it.

Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like {when he fights} on a day of battle.

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"

I will save

And all your children [shall be] pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children [shall be] great.

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

General references

Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you.

But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong [man] [and] plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong [man], and then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

But when a stronger man attacks him [and] conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder.

So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.