Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Ya'akov as loot, 1 and Yisroel to ones plundering? 1 Did not Hashem, He against Whom we have sinned? 1 For they would not walk in the darkhei HaShem, 1 neither were they obedient unto His torah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

In Context

23Who among you will give ozen (ear) to this? 1 Who will pay heed and hear for the time to come? 1

25Therefore He hath poured upon it 1 the chemah (burning heat) of His anger, 1 and the strength of the fury of milchamah; 1 and it hath set him on fire round about, 1 yet it knew not; 1 and it consumed it, 1 yet it laid it not to lev.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49Hashem shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the ketzeh ha'aretz, as swift as the nesher flieth; a nation whose lashon thou shalt not understand;

Judges 2:14And the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He delivered them into the hands of plunderers that plundered them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, that they were not any longer able to stand before their enemies.

Judges 10:7And the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He sold them into the yad Pelishtim (Philistines), and into the yad Bnei Ammon.

2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought upon them Melech Kasdim, who slaughtered their bochurim with the cherev in their Beis Mikdash, and had no pity upon bochur or betulah, zaken or the aged man. He gave them all into his yad.

Psalms 81:12But My people would not pay heed to My voice; 1 and Yisroel would have none of Me. 1

Isaiah 10:5O Ashur, the rod of Mine anger, 1 in whose yad is the mateh of My wrath. 1

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 →

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