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.
• 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!”
• New Living Translation (NLT)But his own people have been robbed and plundered, enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped. They are fair game for anyone and have no one to protect them, no one to take them back home.

Context of Isaiah 42:22

20You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.” 21It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious. 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.” 23Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come? 24Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• a peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• robbedבָּזַזbâzaz · to plunderH962
• and spoiledשָׁסָהshâsâh shâώâh · to plunderH8154
• all of them snaredפָּחַחpâchach · to ensnareH6351
• in holesבָּחוּרbâchûr bâchûr · youthH970
• in holesחֻרchûr chûr · creviceH2352
• and they are hidחָבָאchâbâ' · to hideH2244
• in prisonכֶּ֫לֶאkele' · prisonH3608
• housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• they are for a preyבַּזbaz · plunderH957
• and none deliverethנָצַלnâtsal · to rescueH5337
• for a spoilמְשִׁסָּהmeshissâh · plunderH4933
• and none saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Restoreשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725

Cross-references for Isaiah 42:22

• Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 18:2which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
• Isaiah 36:1In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
• Isaiah 52:4For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
• Isaiah 56:9Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
• Jeremiah 50:17“Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
• Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.
• Jeremiah 52:4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
• Luke 19:41As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
• Luke 21:20“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.
• Isaiah 42:7to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
• Isaiah 14:17the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”
• Isaiah 45:13I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the Lord Almighty.”
• Psalms 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
• Jeremiah 52:31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
• Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”

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