Isaiah 49:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ saying to the prisoners, “Come out,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.” They shall feed along the ways; on all the bare heights shall be their pasture;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ that thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Saying to those who are bound, Come forth, and to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, Show yourselves [come into the light of the Sun of righteousness]. They shall feed in all the ways [in which they go], and their pastures shall be [not in deserts, but] on all the bare [grass-covered] hills.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

Common English Bible

⁹ saying to the prisoners, “Come out,” and to those in darkness, “Show yourselves.” Along the roads animals will graze; their pasture will be on every treeless hilltop.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ so that you would say to those who are bound, "Go forth!" and to those who are in darkness, "Be released!" They will pasture along the roads, and their pastures will be in every open place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth. And to them that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways: and their pastures shall be in every plain.

Isaiah 49:9 Cross References

Psalm 102:20

to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,

Psalm 146:7

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

Psalm 22:26

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever!

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own who are in bonds.

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 5:17

Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture; fatted calves and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus says the Lord God: My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them; he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:29

I will provide for them a splendid vegetation so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land and no longer suffer the insults of the nations.

Joel 3:18

In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Wadi Shittim.

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.

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall live secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth,

Luke 1:79

to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.”

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

John 10:9

I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,

Deuteronomy 32:13

He set him atop the heights of the land and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock,

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.