Verse 24

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

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  • Matt 12:29 : 29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and plunder his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
  • Luke 11:21-22 : 21 When a strong man, armed, guards his palace, his goods are in peace: 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
  • Ezra 9:9 : 9 For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Ezra 9:13 : 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have done right, but we have acted wickedly.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
  • Ps 124:6-7 : 6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
  • Ps 126:1-3 : 1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them. 3 The LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
  • Isa 42:22 : 22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for a prey, and no one delivers; for a plunder, and no one says, 'Restore.'
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Jer 25:6-9 : 6 And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.' 7 Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm. 8 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Because you have not heard My words, 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 25:11-14 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
  • Ezek 37:3 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off.