Isaiah 49:9

The Servant proclaims liberty to prisoners and those in darkness, who will be led out and shepherded to safe pasture.

Cross-references · 33

• Isa 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
• Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Zech 9:11–12As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Isa 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
• Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
• Ps 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• 1 Th 5:5–6You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
• Ps 107:10–16Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• John 6:53–58Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Ezek 34:23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
• 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Joel 3:18It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.
• Isa 55:1–2“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• Ezek 34:29I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
• Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
• Ps 23:1–2A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
• Col 1:13who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
• Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
• Ezek 34:13–15I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
• Isa 5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
• Isa 60:1–2“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Deut 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• Isa 65:13Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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