24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
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When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: …
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. …
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-26)Here is, I. An objection started against the promise of the Jews’ release out of their captivity in Babylon, suggesting that it was a thing not to be expected; for (Isa. 49:24) they were a prey in the hand of the mighty, of such as were then the greatest potentates on earth, and therefore it was not likely they should be rescued by force. Yet that was not all: they were lawful captives; by the law…
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