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 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

20Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear.” 21The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable. 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!” 23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? 24Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to 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 are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 18:2Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide.”
• Isaiah 36:1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
• Isaiah 52:4For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
• Isaiah 56:9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, All you beasts in the forest.
• Jeremiah 50:17“Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
• Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel, He has swallowed me up like a monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.
• Jeremiah 52:4Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
• Luke 19:41Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
• Luke 21:20“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
• Isaiah 42:7To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
• Isaiah 14:17Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’
• Isaiah 45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, And I will direct all his ways; He shall build My city And let My exiles go free, Not for price nor reward,” Says the Lord of hosts.
• Psalms 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,
• Jeremiah 52:31Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
• Isaiah 51:23But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, ‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’ And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk over.”

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