Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.
23Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.
Psalms 50:22Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
Isaiah 14:17That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
Isaiah 24:3With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:22And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:19-25
The Blindness of the Jews. ( b. c. 708.) 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord 's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they… Read the whole commentary →