24 (A)Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,
Or the captives [a]of the righteous be delivered?

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  1. Isaiah 49:24 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, Syr., Vg. of the mighty; LXX unjustly

21 (A)When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. 22 But (B)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 [a]spoils.

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  1. Luke 11:22 plunder

29 (A)Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

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22 But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are [a]snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”

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  1. Isaiah 42:22 Or trapped in caves

Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
(A)Our soul has escaped (B)as a bird from the snare of the [a]fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

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  1. Psalm 124:7 Persons who catch birds in a trap or snare

12 (A)Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
(B)And He shall divide the [a]spoil with the strong,
Because He (C)poured out His soul unto death,
And He was (D)numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And (E)made intercession for the transgressors.

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  1. Isaiah 53:12 plunder

13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God (A)have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this,

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(A)For we were slaves. (B)Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but (C)He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us (D)a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the (A)whole house of Israel. They indeed say, (B)‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’

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And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

So I answered, “O Lord God, (A)You know.”

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Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’ Yet you have not listened to Me,” says the Lord, “that you might (A)provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, behold, I will send and take (B)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (C)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (D)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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A Joyful Return to Zion

A Song of Ascents.

126 When (A)the Lord brought back [a]the captivity of Zion,
(B)We were like those who dream.
Then (C)our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the [b]nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us,
And we are glad.

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  1. Psalm 126:1 Those of the captivity
  2. Psalm 126:2 Gentiles

37 And (A)it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have (B)dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.

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33 However (A)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (B)we have done wickedly.

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11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy (A)years.

12 ‘Then it will come to pass, (B)when [a]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; (C)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14 (D)(For many nations (E)and great kings shall (F)be served by them also; (G)and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”

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  1. Jeremiah 25:12 Beginning circa 605 b.c. (2 Kin. 24:1) and ending circa 536 b.c. (Ezra 1:1)

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