Isaiah 49:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

But thus says Yahweh, 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 who contends with you, and I will save your children.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה גַּם־שְׁבִ֤י גִבּוֹר֙ יֻקָּ֔ח וּמַלְק֥וֹחַ עָרִ֖יץ יִמָּלֵ֑ט וְאֶת־יְרִיבֵךְ֙ אָנֹכִ֣י אָרִ֔יב וְאֶת־בָּנַ֖יִךְ אָנֹכִ֥י אוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

Transliteration

For-thus ʾāmar YHWH: also-šəḇî gibbôr yuqqāḥ, and-malqôaḥ ʿārîṣ yimmālēṭ; and-ʾeṯ-yərîḇēḵ ʾānōḵî ʾārîḇ, and-ʾeṯ-bānayiḵ ʾānōḵî ʾôšîaʿ.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - said
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *šəḇî*: noun, masculine singular construct - captive of
• *gibbôr*: adjective, masculine singular - mighty one
• *yuqqāḥ*: verb, hophal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will be taken
• *malqôaḥ*: noun, masculine singular construct - prey of
• *ʿārîṣ*: adjective, masculine singular - terrifying/tyrant
• *yimmālēṭ*: verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will escape/be delivered
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *yərîḇēḵ*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your adversaries
• *ʾānōḵî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
• *ʾārîḇ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will contend
• *bānayiḵ*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your sons
• *ʾôšîaʿ*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will save

Word Meanings

• *šəḇî*: captive of/prisoner of/captivity of
• *gibbôr*: mighty one/warrior/hero/powerful person
• *yuqqāḥ*: will be taken/shall be taken/can be taken
• *malqôaḥ*: prey of/plunder of/spoil of
• *ʿārîṣ*: terrifying one/tyrant/ruthless one/violent one
• *yimmālēṭ*: will escape/will be delivered/will be rescued
• *yərîḇēḵ*: your adversaries/those who contend with you/your opponents
• *ʾārîḇ*: I will contend/I will dispute/I will strive
• *ʾôšîaʿ*: I will save/I will deliver/I will rescue

Referenced Verses

• Isa 35:4 : 4 Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
• Jer 50:33-34 : 33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
• Isa 54:15-17 : 15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you. 16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
• Isa 41:11-12 : 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish. 12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.
• Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
• Jer 50:17-19 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. 18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. 19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
• Rom 8:31-39 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Jer 51:35-36 : 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
• Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
• Isa 14:2 : 2 The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
• Num 23:8-9 : 8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
• Isa 10:27 : 27 It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
• Isa 52:2-5 : 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Zech 14:12 : 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
• 1 John 3:8 : 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Zech 9:11 : 11 As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Zech 9:13-16 : 13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; And I will stir up your sons, Zion, Against your sons, Greece, And will make you like the sword of a mighty man. 14 Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south. 15 Yahweh of Hosts will defend them; And they will destroy and overcome with sling-stones; And they will drink, and roar as through wine; And they will be filled like bowls, Like the corners of the altar. 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.
• Zech 12:3-6 : 3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. 4 In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Hosts their God.' 6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
• Zech 14:3 : 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.