Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people robbed and plundered; 1 they are all trapped in pits, held captive in prisons; 1 they have become a plunder with no one to rescue them, and no one says, “Bring them back!” 1
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21It pleased Yahweh to praise his justice and to make his law glorious. 1
23Who among you will listen to this? Who will listen and hear in the future? 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; you will be always oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
Psalms 50:22Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, 1 otherwise I will tear you to pieces, 1 and there will be no one to come to help you! 1
Isaiah 1:7Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; 1 your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— 1 abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers. 1
Isaiah 14:17who made the world like a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?' 1
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped; 1 for Yahweh has spoken this word. 1
Isaiah 24:22They will be gathered together, prisoners in a pit, 1 and will be shut up in a prison; 1 and after many days they will be punished. 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 →