Isaiah 42:22 ASV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

The prophet, having spoken by way of comfort and encouragement to the believing Jews who waited for the consolation of Israel, here turns to those among them who were unbelieving, for their conviction and humiliation. Among those who were in captivity in Babylon there were some who were as the evil figs in Jeremiah's vision, who were sent thither for their hurt, to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, Jer. 24:9. In them there was a type of the Jews who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and spoiled ,.... The Jewish people, who shut their eyes against the clear light of the Gospel, and turned a deaf ear to Christ, and to his ministers, rejected him, and persecuted them; these were robbed and plundered by the Roman soldiers of all their riches and treasures, when the city of Jerusalem was taken: they are all of them snared in holes ; such of them as escaped and hid themselves in holes, and caverns, and dens of the earth, were laid in wait for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 42:22

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. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:10-25

A new song to Jehovah. Caught up in his ecstasy to a high place of vision, the prophet sees all the nations of mankind deriving blessing from the ministry of Israel, and calls upon them to join in a song of praise. God's goodness in providing a Redeemer demands the thanksgiving of all the world. I. THE SONG AND THE SINGERS . The new song is named in the Psalter ( Psalms 96:1 ; Psalms 98:1 ), meaning a song inspired by the sense of new mercies. All parts of the earth are to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

ADDRESS TO CAPTIVE ISRAEL , CALLING UPON THEM TO TURN TO GOD , AND REMINDING THEM THAT THEY HAVE DESERVED THEIR AFFLICTIONS . By some critics the earlier verses of this passage ( Isaiah 42:19-21 ) are regarded as having reference to the "Servant of the Lord" depicted in Isaiah 42:1-7 , and as calling on the captive Jews to consider his voluntary humiliation, and the object of it. But this view seems to be strained. It requires "deaf" and "blind' to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

The blindness of Israel. The "blindness" of Israel is a subject of continual remark in Scripture from the time of Moses ( Deuteronomy 28:28 , Deuteronomy 28:29 ) to that of St. Paul ( Romans 11:25 ). Four things may be noted of it. I. IT IS SELF - CAUSED . The Israelites "blinded themselves," and so became blind ( Isaiah 29:9 , with the comment). They "winked with their eyes," closed them against the light which shone on them from on high, and thus gradually by disuse... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:19-25

(latter part) The hidden hurt. I. THERE ARE PENALTIES WHICH ARE PALPABLE TO EVERY EYE . When vice or crime leads down to poverty, or to serious sickness, or to desertion and consequent loneliness, or to confinement in prison, there is no possibility of mistake. God is "pouring out his anger" against the transgressors of his Law; he is "magnifying his Law, and making it honourable" ( Isaiah 42:21 ). But— II. THERE ARE PENALTIES WHICH ARE UNDETECTED EVEN ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people , etc.; i.e. yet, notwithstanding all that has been done for it, see the condition into which this people has brought itself. For their sins, here they are in Babylonia, robbed and spoiled —i.e; suffering oppression and wrong— snared in holes , or taken in their enemies' pits ( Psalms 119:85 ), and, some of them, hid in prison-houses (see 2 Kings 25:27 ), expiating by their punishments the long series of their offences. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:22

But 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 while in Babylon.They are all of them... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:22-24

Isaiah 42:22-24. But this is a people robbed and spoiled Notwithstanding the great respect which God hath had, and still hath, for his people, it is evident he hath severely scourged them for their sins. They are all of them snared in holes, &c. They have been taken in snares made by their own hands, and, by God’s just judgment, delivered into the hands of their enemies, and by them cast into pits, or dungeons, and prisons. And none saith, Restore None afforded them either pity or... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 42:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 42:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:10-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:19-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:22-24

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