Isaiah 42:22

Isaiah 42:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
• New International Version (NIV)But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"
• New King James Version (NKJV)But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”

Context of Isaiah 42:22

20You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears. 21The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake To make the law great and glorious. But this is a people plundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, “Give them back!” 23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter? 24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

Isaiah 42:22 word by word

וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃Read the interlinear

• But thisהוּאhû' hîy' · he/she/itH1931
• is a peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• plunderedבָּזַזbâzaz · to plunderH962
• and despoiledשָׁסָהshâsâh shâώâh · to plunderH8154
• Allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• trappedפָּחַחpâchach · to ensnareH6351
• hiddenחָבָאchâbâ' · to hideH2244
• away in prisonsכֶּ֫לֶאkele' · prisonH3608
• They have becomeהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• a preyבַּזbaz · plunderH957
• with noneאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• to deliverנָצַלnâtsal · to rescueH5337
• And a spoilמְשִׁסָּהmeshissâh · plunderH4933
• to sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Giveשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725
• backשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725

Cross-references for Isaiah 42:22

• Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields--strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 18:2Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.
• Isaiah 36:1Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
• Isaiah 52:4For thus says the Lord God, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
• Isaiah 56:9All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.
• Jeremiah 50:17“Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
• Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.
• Jeremiah 52:4Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.
• Luke 19:41When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,
• Luke 21:20“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
• Isaiah 42:7To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
• Isaiah 14:17Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’
• Isaiah 45:13I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and will let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.
• Psalms 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death,
• Jeremiah 52:31Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
• Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, Who have said to you, ‘Lie down that we may walk over you.’ You have even made your back like the ground And like the street for those who walk over it.”

Commentaries on Isaiah 42:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22They are all of them snared in holes "All their chosen youths are taken in the toils" - For הפח hapheach read הופחו huphachu, in the plural number, hophal; as החבאו hochbau, which answers to it in the following member of the sentence. Le Clerc, Houbigant. הפח huppach, Secker.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22But this is a people robbed and spoiled - The Jewish people, though highly favored, have been so unmindful of the goodness of God to them, that he has given them into the hand of their enemies to plunder them. This is to be conceived as spoken after the captivity, and while the Jews were in exile. Their being robbed and spoiled, therefore, refers to the invasion of the Chaldeans, and is to be regarded as spoken propheticly of the exiled and oppressed Jews…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 Observe the call given to this people, and the character given of them. Multitudes are ruined for want of observing that which they cannot but see; they perish, not through ignorance, but carelessness. The Lord is well-pleased in the making known his own righteousness. For their sins they were spoiled of all their possessions. This fully came to pass in the destruction of the Jewish nation. There is no resisting, nor escaping God's anger. See…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22-25Throughout its history, Israel's sins (Isaiah 42:24) made it vulnerable to foreign oppressors. Many nations, especially Assyria and Babylon, became tools God used to express his anger (Isaiah 42:25) toward his rebellious people.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. holes--caught by their foes in the caverns where they had sought refuge [Barnes]. Or bound in subterranean dungeons [Maurer]. prison-houses--either literal prisons, or their own houses, whence they dare not go forth for fear of the enemy. The connection is: Notwithstanding God's favor to His people for His righteousness' sake (Is 42:21), they have fallen into misery (the Babylonish and Romish captivities and their present dispersion), owing to their…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 42

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings