Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 49:25

25. But thus sayth the LORD, Even the captives of the mightie shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

I the Almighty God will undertake thy quarrel, and this work, and therefore it must necessarily be accomplished.

k Or, of the violent, which is opposed to the lawful Captive in the foregoing verse: and it is hereby intimated that although God was just in delivering them into Captivity, yet their oppressors were guilty of injustice and violence both in desiring and indeavouring to keep them in perpetual bondage, beyond the seventy years which God had fixed, and in their cruel usage of them.

Marginal references: Heb. the captivity.