Isaiah 42:22
But it is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them ensnared in holes, and in prison-houses are they hidden: they are become for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23Who among you will give ear to this? will hearken and listen, for the time to come?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help.
Psalms 50:22Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your soil—in your presence, strangers devour it, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 14:17That rendered the world as a wilderness, and pulled down its cities: never opened the prison-house of his prisoners?”
Isaiah 24:3Empty, emptied out shall be the land, and spoiled, utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:22And they shall be gathered in heaps, as prisoners, in the prison, and shall be shut up in the dungeon, and thus after many days shall they 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 →