Isaiah 49:9

New English Translation

You will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons, ‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Cross References

Psalm 102:20

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

Psalm 146:7

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

Psalm 22:26

Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.

Isaiah 41:18

I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 42:7

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

Isaiah 48:17

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, 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

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

Isaiah 9:2

(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:29

I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

Joel 3:18

On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.

Leviticus 25:54

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

Micah 5:4

He will assume his post and shepherd the people by the Lord’s strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. They will live securely, for at that time he will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.

Luke 1:79

to give light to 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 proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

John 10:9

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Acts 26:18

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

Ephesians 5:14

For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: “Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

Ephesians 5:8

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

Deuteronomy 32:13

He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

Colossians 1:13

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.