Isaiah 42:22
20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
23 Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- 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.
- WEB
- But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
- ASV
- But this is a people robbed and plundered; 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.
- DARBY
- But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth, a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
- BLB
- And it [is] a people robbed and plundered; all of them are trapped in holes, or hidden in houses of prisoners. They have become a spoil with no rescue, a plunder and no one is saying, “Send [them] back!”
- ÅB
- Men det er et røvet og plyndret folk; de ligger alle sammen bundet i huler og skjult i fangehus; de ble røvet, og ingen reddet dem, de ble plyndret, og ingen sa: Gi tilbake!
- OTB
- Men dette er et folk plyndret og herjet; alle er fanget i groper eller skjult bort i fengsler. De har blitt plyndret, uten noen til å redde dem; de har blitt gjort til bytte, uten noen til å si: «Send dem tilbake.»
- B1930
- Men det er et røvet og plyndret folk; de ligger alle sammen bundet i huler og skjult i fangehus; de blev røvet, og ingen reddet dem, de blev plyndret, og ingen sa: Gi tilbake!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 102:20
to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Read in contextJeremiah 50:17
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
Read in contextIsaiah 51:23
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
Read in contextIsaiah 24:22
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
Read in contextPsalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Read in contextLuke 19:41–44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
Read in contextJeremiah 51:34–35
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Read in contextIsaiah 52:4–5
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
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