Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 49:24
Shall the prey — Here is a double impediment to their deliverance, the power of the enemy who kept them in bondage, and the justice of God which pleads against their deliverance.
Shall the prey — Here is a double impediment to their deliverance, the power of the enemy who kept them in bondage, and the justice of God which pleads against their deliverance.
Verse Isaiah 49:24. _SHALL THE PREY BE TAKEN FROM THE MIGHTY_ - "Shall the prey seized by the terrible be rescued"] For צדיק _tsaddik_, read עריץ _arits_. A palpable mistake, like that in Isaiah 42:1...
SHALL THE PREY BE TAKEN FROM THE MIGHTY? - This seems to be the language of Zion. It is not exactly the language of incredulity; it is the language of amazement and wonder. God had made great promises...
2. THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, HIS SUFFERING AND HIS GLORY (49-57) CHAPTER 49 The Servant of Jehovah and His Mission 1. _The servant speaks of himself (Isaiah 49:1)_ 2. _He complains of failure (Isaiah...
ISAIAH 49:22 TO ISAIAH 50:3. THE PROMISES TO ZION ELABORATED AND CONFIRMED. At a sign from Yahweh the nations shall with solicitous care bring back the exiles to Zion. Kings and queens shall tend them...
THE PREY. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 31:11; Numbers 31:12; Numbers 31:26; Numbers 31:27;...
Isaiah 49:14 to Isaiah 50:3. The Consolation of Zion (i) Isaiah 49:14. In an apostrophe to Jerusalem the prophet announces the speedy return of her population and the rebuilding of her waste places....
The emancipation of Israel is here regarded as having to be effected by force, and Jehovah pledges His omnipotence to the task. The bright picture of Isaiah 49:22 does not touch the gravest difficulty...
_from the mighty_ FROM A HERO. _the lawful captive_ lit. THE CAPTIVITY (captives) OF A RIGHTEOUS ONE. This is the only sense that the phrase will properly bear; all the attempts to construe it otherwi...
DISCOURSE: 954 DESPONDING FEARS REMOVED Isaiah 49:24. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken...
OR THE LAWFUL CAPTIVE DELIVERED?— _Or the captive company of the rigorous_ or _terrible one be delivered?_ [read עריצ _orits_ for צדיק _zadik,_ with St. Jerome.] Isaiah 49:25. _Yea, thus saith the Lor...
d. DELIVERED SOCIETY TEXT: Isaiah 49:22-26 22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their...
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? SHALL THE PREY - Israel, long a prey to mighty Gentile nations, whose oppression of her shall reach its highest point under...
The *Lord will take practical action to bring back the people’s original situation....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 49 ‘MY SPECIAL SERVANT’ In the Book of Isaiah, the meaning of ‘my (that is, the *Lord’s...
SHALL THE PREY BE TAKEN...? — The question is asked by Zion in her little faith. The next phrase, “lawful captive,” literally “captive of righteousness,” may mean, (1) as in the Authorised version a c...
הֲ יֻקַּ֥ח מִ גִּבֹּ֖ור מַלְקֹ֑וחַ וְ אִם
CHAPTER XXI DOUBTS IN THE WAY Isaiah 49:1 - Isaiah 52:12 Chapter S 49-53 are, as we have seen, a series of more or less closely joined passages, in which the prophet, having already made the politic...
THE LORD CANNOT FORGET HIS OWN Isaiah 49:14-26 These assurances were given to the chosen race on the eve of their return from Babylon. They were timid and reluctant to quit the familiar scenes of the...
We now commence the section in which the Prince of Peace is most clearly seen. He is revealed first as sustained through suffering (Chapter s 49-53), and then as singing in triumph (Chapter s 54-57)....
Shall the prey be (d) taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? (d) He makes this as an objection as though the Chaldeans were strong, and had them in just possession....
_Strong. Can I force the Babylonians to yield? Surely, and the devil also, Luke xi. 21. --- Mighty. Hebrew, "just," in lawful war. Septuagint, "unjustly."_...
The greatness of the blessings promised in this Chapter, being so wonderful in themselves, and so much beyond all possible expectation to the people, who were to be made happy in the possession of the...
24._Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? _Having solved, in the former verse, an objection which might occur to the mind of believers, he now confirms that solution still more; for it might have b...
The Messiah is brought in, for it is He who delivers. But it is a question apart, so to say. The subject of Christ, and of the people's guilt with respect to Him, begins with chapter 49, which, with t...
SHALL THE PREY BE TAKEN FROM THE MIGHTY,.... This is an objection to the accomplishment of what is predicted and promised above, taken from the power of the enemy, and his right to detain the people;...
_Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?_ Ver. 24. _Shall the prey be taken from the mighty?_] Not unless he be out matched and over mastered. The heathens were wont...
_Shall the prey be taken from the mighty_ Here an objection is started against the forementioned promises, probably, 1st, Against the promise of the release of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon...
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive, the entire band of captives, DELIVERED? this being the somewhat dubious question put by the more timid, who see nothing of the promised d...
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
THE LAWFUL CAPTIVE: _ Heb._ the captivity of the just...
24-26 We were lawful captives to the justice of God, yet delivered by a price of unspeakable value. Here is an express promise: Even the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. We may here view Sata...
SHALL THE PREY BE TAKEN FROM THE MIGHTY? here he starteth an objection against the forementioned promises: How can God's church be delivered, when she is become a prey to, and is in the hands of, her...
Isaiah 49:24 prey H4455 taken H3947 (H8714) mighty H1368 captives H7628 righteous H6662 delivered H4422 (H8735)...
THE DESPAIR OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FINAL HOPE (ISAIAH 49:14). The picture now reverts. Yahweh's call to them was to be His Servant, but instead they are sitting moaning on the ground. Here the pictur...
Isaiah 49:24. _Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?_ Yes, this shall happen when God makes bare his arm, and stretches it forth to rescue his captive people. Isa...
Isaiah 49:13. _Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted._ When God blesses hi...
Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people from, far; The LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...
CONTENTS: Israel's coming Redeemer. Preservation and restoration of Israel and judgment on oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: God, of old, promised a Redeemer to His people who would al...
Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, oh isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people from far._ The Hebrews reckoned among the isles, not only those of Greece, but the gentile nations generally, who are represented as wai...
_Shall the prey be taken from the mighty?_ DELIVERANCE FROM BONDAGE AND DEATH I. THE STATE OF FALLEN MAN IS ONE OF MISERY AND BONDAGE. 1. Misery because he is the prey of a mighty tyrant, the devil...
_They shall not hunger nor thirst_ PROMISE OF CHRIST TO HIS PEOPLE The people of God are represented as a flock of sheep travelling under the care of their good shepherd, in the heat of summer, thro...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:24 The people’s skeptical question in v. Isaiah 49:24 is answered by the Lord’s strong assertion in vv....
THE PREY TAKEN FROM THE MIGHTY Isaiah 49:24. _Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? &c._ The history of God’s love to His people is a ground of encouragement and hope to the Church in all aftertim...
SECTION III. THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD (CH. 49-53). EXPOSITION The connection of the present section is especially with Isaiah 42:1, where the mission of the Servant of Jehovah was f
Now in chapter 49, we have a fabulous prophecy of Jesus Christ in the first seven verses as God speaks of the Redeemer that He is sending. Listen, O coasts, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;...
Ezekiel 37:11; Ezekiel 37:3; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:9; Isaiah 42:22;...