Isaiah 42:22 - Exposition

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.