Isaiah 42:22
But this people ended up robbed and raided, all of them trapped in holes or hidden in prisons. They have been stolen like loot, with no one to save them from being someone's prize, no one to say “Give them back!”
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In Context
23Who of you is going to listen to this, or pay attention later on?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29so that even at noon you will be groping around like a blind man in the dark. You won't be successful in what you do. You'll be persecuted and robbed the whole time, and no one will come and save you.
Psalms 50:22Think again, you people who dismiss God, or I will tear you apart, and no one will be able to save you.
Isaiah 1:7Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
Isaiah 14:17Is this the one who turned the world into a desert, destroyed cities, and never let his prisoners return home?’
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be completely laid waste and looted. This is what the Lord has said.
Isaiah 24:22They will be brought together, prisoners in a pit. They will be imprisoned, and eventually they will be punished.
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 →