Isaiah 42 · Verse 22

Isaiah 42:22

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.
Isaiah 42:22, King James Version

Isaiah 42:22 in other translations

BSBBut 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!”
WEBBut 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!’
ASVBut 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.
YLTAnd this is a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes--all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, ‘Restore.'
DARBYBut 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.
BBEBut this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
WebsterBut this is a people robbed and pillaged; 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.

What does Isaiah 42:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. 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 disregard of the divine law: spiritual imprisonment is included (Is 42:7). none saith, Restore--There is no deliverer (Is 63:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 They 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 42:18-25

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…

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Isaiah 42:22 in the original Hebrew

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וְהוּא֮ve.Hu'and itH1931
עַם\־'am-[is] a peopleH5971
בָּז֣וּזba.ZuzdespoiledH962
וְשָׁסוּי֒ve.sha.Suiand plunderedH8154
הָפֵ֤חַha.Fe.achthey are trappedH6351
בַּֽחוּרִים֙ba.chu.Rimin <the> holesH2352
כֻּלָּ֔םku.Lamall of themH3605
וּבְבָתֵּ֥יu.ve.va.Teiand in houses ofH1004
כְלָאִ֖יםkhe.la.'Imimprisonment<s>H3608
הָחְבָּ֑אוּha.che.Ba.'uthey are hiddenH2244
הָי֤וּha.Yuthey have becomeH1961
לָבַז֙la.Vaz<into> spoilH957
וְאֵ֣יןve.'Einand there notH369
מַצִּ֔ילma.Tzil[is] a delivererH5337
מְשִׁסָּ֖הme.shi.SahplunderH4933
וְאֵין\־ve.'ein-and there notH369
אֹמֵ֥ר'o.Mer[is one who] saysH559
הָשַֽׁב\׃ha.Shavbring [it] backH7725

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 42:22

  • Psalms 102:20

    To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

  • Jeremiah 50:17

    Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

  • Isaiah 51:23

    But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

  • Isaiah 24:22

    And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

  • Psalms 50:22

    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

  • Luke 19:41-44

    And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Jeremiah 51:34-35

    Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

  • Isaiah 52:4-5

    For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

  • Isaiah 42:7

    To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

  • Isaiah 24:18

    And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

  • Isaiah 18:2

    That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

  • Isaiah 14:17

    That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a people.
1:7; 18:2; 36:1; 52:4,5; 56:9; Jer 50:17; 51:34,35; 52:4-11
Lu 19:41-44; 21:20-24
they are all of them snared. or, in snaring all the youngmen of them. are hid.
7; 14:17; 45:13; Ps 102:20; Jer 52:31
a spoil. Heb. a treading.
51:23; De 28:29-33; Ps 50:22

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Context

  • Isaiah 42:21

    The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

  • Isaiah 42:22

    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.

  • Isaiah 42:23

    Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

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Isaiah 42:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas este es pueblo saqueado y hollado, todos ellos enlazados en cavernas y escondidos en cárceles: son puestos á saco, y no hay quien libre; hollados, y no hay quien diga, Restituid.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Mais c’est ici un peuple pillé et dépouillé; ils sont tous liés dans des fosses, et ils sont cachés dans des prisons; ils sont devenus un butin, et il n’y a personne qui délivre, – une proie, et il n’y a personne qui dise: Restitue!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und doch ist es ein beraubtes und ausgeplündertes Volk; sie sind in Löchern gefesselt allesamt und in Kerkern versteckt; sie sind zur Beute geworden, und kein Erretter ist da, zur Plünderung, und niemand spricht: Gib wieder heraus!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ipse autem populus direptus, et vastatus; laqueus juvenum omnes, et in domibus carcerum absconditi sunt; facti sunt in rapinam, nec est qui eruat; in direptionem, nec est qui dicat: Redde.