Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
23Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
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 →