Isaiah 42:22
And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, || Snared in holes—all of them, || And they were hidden in houses of restraint, || They have been for a prey, || And there is no deliverer, || A spoil, and none is saying, “Restore.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21YHWH has delight for the sake of His righteousness, || He magnifies law, and makes honorable.
23Who among you gives ear [to] this? Attends, and hears afterward?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29and you have been groping at noon, as the blind gropes in darkness; and you do not cause your ways to prosper; and you have been only oppressed and plundered [for] all the days, and there is no savior.
Psalms 50:22Now understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
Isaiah 1:7Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burned with fire, || Your ground—strangers are consuming it before you, || And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
Isaiah 14:17He has made the world as a wilderness, || And he has broken down his cities, || He did not open the house of his bound ones.
Isaiah 24:3The earth is utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled, || For YHWH has spoken this word:
Isaiah 24:22And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, || And they have been shut up in a prison, || And after a multitude of days are inspected.
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 →