Isaiah 49:9

New Century Version

You will tell the prisoners, ‘Come out of your prison.’ You will tell those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’ The people will eat beside the roads, and they will find food even on bare hills.

Cross References

Psalm 102:20

He heard the moans of the prisoners, and he freed those sentenced to die.

Psalm 146:7

He does what is fair for those who have been wronged. He gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Psalm 22:26

Poor people will eat until they are full; those who look to the Lord will praise him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalm 69:33

The Lord listens to those in need and does not look down on captives.

Isaiah 41:18

I will make rivers flow on the dry hills and springs flow through the valleys. I will change the desert into a lake of water and the dry land into fountains of water.

Isaiah 42:16

Then I will lead the blind along a way they never knew; I will guide them along paths they have not known. I will make the darkness become light for them, and the rough ground smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not leave my people.

Isaiah 42:7

You will help the blind to see. You will free those who are in prison, and you will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.

Isaiah 48:17

This is what the Lord, who saves you, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to do what is good, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 5:17

Then the sheep will go anywhere they want, and lambs will feed on the land that rich people once owned.

Isaiah 61:1

The Lord God has put his Spirit in me, because the Lord has appointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort those whose hearts are broken, to tell the captives they are free, and to tell the prisoners they are released.

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the Lord God says: “My servants will eat, but you evil people will be hungry. My servants will drink, but you evil people will be thirsty. My servants will be happy, but you evil people will be shamed.

Isaiah 9:2

Before those people lived in darkness, but now they have seen a great light. They lived in a dark land, but a light has shined on them.

Ezekiel 34:23

Then I will put over them one shepherd, my servant David. He will feed them and tend them and be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:29

I will give them a place famous for its good crops, so they will no longer suffer from hunger in the land. They will not suffer the insults of other nations anymore.

Joel 3:18

“On that day wine will drip from the mountains, milk will flow from the hills, and water will run through all the ravines of Judah. A fountain will flow from the Temple of the Lord and give water to the valley of acacia trees.

Leviticus 25:54

“ ‘Even if no one buys him back, at the year of Jubilee, he and his children will become free.

Micah 5:4

At that time the ruler of Israel will stand and take care of his people with the Lord’s strength and with the power of the name of the Lord his God. The Israelites will live in safety, because his greatness will reach all over the earth.

Luke 1:79

It will shine on those who live in darkness, in the shadow of death. It will guide us into the path of peace.”

Luke 2:32

It is a light for the non-Jewish people to see and an honor for your people, the Israelites.”

Luke 4:18

“The Lord has put his Spirit in me, because he appointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to tell the captives they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again. God sent me to free those who have been treated unfairly

John 10:9

I am the door, and the person who enters through me will be saved and will be able to come in and go out and find pasture.

John 8:12

Later, Jesus talked to the people again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The person who follows me will never live in darkness but will have the light that gives life.”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the power of Satan and to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been made holy by believing in me.’

Ephesians 5:14

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5:8

In the past you were full of darkness, but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like children who belong to the light.

Deuteronomy 32:13

The Lord brought them to the heights of the land and fed them the fruit of the fields. He gave them honey from the rocks, bringing oil from the solid rock.

Colossians 1:13

God has freed us from the power of darkness, and he brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.