Isaiah 42:22
But, that, is a people preyed upon and plundered, Snared in holes, all of them, And, in houses of restraint, concealed,—They have become a prey, and there is none to deliver,—A booty, and there is none to say—Restore!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
23Who among you, will give ear to this,—Let him hearken and hear, for an aftertime?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper,—but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled all the days with none to save.
Psalms 50:22Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver:—
Isaiah 1:7Your country—is a desolation, Your cities—are consumed with fire,—Your soil—right before your eyes, foreigners are devouring it, And it is a desolation a very overthrow by foreigners;
Isaiah 14:17Who made the world like a desert? And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home?
Isaiah 24:3Emptied—emptied—shall be the earth yea pillaged—pillaged,—For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:22And they shall be swept together in a crowd, fettered for a pit, And shall be lowered into a dungeon,—And, 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 →