Isaiah 42:22 · 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. {they are all...: or, in snaring all the young men of them} {for a spoil: Heb. a treading}”
— Isaiah 42:22
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make {it} honourable. {it: or, him}
Who among you will give ear to this? {who} will hearken and hear for the time to come? {for...: Heb. for the after time?}
Isaiah 42 — Context
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make {it} honourable. {it: or, him}
22But 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. {they are all...: or, in snaring all the young men of them} {for a spoil: Heb. a treading}
23Who among you will give ear to this? {who} will hearken and hear for the time to come? {for...: Heb. for the after time?}
24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Cross References
Psalms 102:20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; {those...: Heb. the children of 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.
Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and {there be} none to deliver.
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. {as prisoners...: Heb. with the gathering of prisoners} {pit: or, dungeon} {visited: or, found wanting}
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.
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.
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.