Isaiah 49:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ But thus says the Lord: Even the captives of the mighty will be taken, and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ For thus says the Lord: Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the prey of the terrible will be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will give safety to your children and ease them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ But thus saith Jehovah, 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.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The LORD says: Even the captives of warriors will be taken, and the tyrant’s loot will escape. I myself will oppose those who oppose you, and I myself will save your children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For thus says the Lord: Certainly, even the captives will be taken away from the strong, even what has been taken by the powerful will be saved. And truly, I will judge those who have judged you, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 49:25 Cross References

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.”

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the prosperity of your children.

Zechariah 14:12

This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.

Isaiah 14:2

And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess the nations as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.

Isaiah 10:27

On that day his burden will be removed from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck. He has gone up from Samaria;

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

1 John 3:8

Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.

Zechariah 9:11

As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Jeremiah 29:10

For thus says the Lord: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

Isaiah 25:9

It will be said on that day, “See, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Galatians 4:26

But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

Zechariah 14:3

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

Mark 3:27

But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

Psalm 35:1

Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like a lion; like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and no one can rescue.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 19:20

It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and will defend and deliver them.

Isaiah 25:4

For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler; the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, your God who pleads the cause of his people: See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; you shall drink no more from the cup of my wrath.

Jeremiah 15:21

I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

Nahum 2:13

See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.

Leviticus 25:54

And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go out in the Jubilee year.

Isaiah 51:14

The oppressed shall speedily be released; they shall not die and go down to the Pit, nor shall they lack bread.

Jeremiah 31:11

For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.