以赛亚书 42:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但這人民是被搶劫和被掠奪的，全都困陷在洞穴中，被收藏在監牢裡；他們作了掠物，無人搭救；他們成了擄物，無人說：“要歸還！”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 这 百 姓 是 被 抢 被 夺 的 ， 都 牢 笼 在 坑 中 ， 隐 藏 在 狱 里 ； 他 们 作 掠 物 ， 无 人 拯 救 ， 作 掳 物 ， 无 人 说 交 还 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "You who are deaf, hear me. You who are blind, look and see. ¹⁹ No one is more blind than my servant Israel or more deaf than the messenger I send. No one is more blind than the person I own or more blind than the servant of the Lord . ²⁰ Israel, you have seen much, but you have not obeyed. You hear, but you refuse to listen." ²¹ The Lord made his teachings wonderful, because he is good. ²² These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, "Bring them back." ²³ Will any of you listen to this? Will you listen carefully in the future? ²⁴ Who let the people of Jacob be carried off? Who let robbers take Israel away? The Lord allowed this to happen, because we sinned against him. We did not live the way he wanted us to live and did not obey his teaching. ²⁵ So he became very angry with us and brought terrible wars against us. It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them, but they didn't know what was happening. It was as if they were burning, but they didn't pay any attention.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a people: Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 18:2, Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 52:4, Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 56:9, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:35, Jeremiah 52:4-11, Luke 19:41-44, Luke 21:20-24

they are all of them snared: or, in snaring all the young men of them

are hid: Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 14:17, Isaiah 45:13, Psalms 102:20, Jeremiah 52:31

a spoil: Heb. a treading, Isaiah 51:23, Deuteronomy 28:29-33, Psalms 50:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:19 - house 1 Samuel 13:6 - in caves Isaiah 2:10 - Enter Isaiah 5:13 - my people Isaiah 5:29 - lay hold Isaiah 49:24 - prey Hosea 7:9 - devoured Zechariah 9:11 - I have Revelation 6:15 - hid

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 42:5
Along with many other people, the sons of Israel went to Egypt to buy grain, because the people in the land of Canaan were also hungry.

Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over Egypt. He was the one who sold the grain to people who came to buy it. So Joseph's brothers came to him and bowed facedown on the ground before him.

Genesis 42:21
They said to each other, "We are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his trouble, and he begged us to save him, but we refused to listen. That is why we are in this trouble now."

Genesis 42:22
Then Reuben said to them, "I told you not to harm the boy, but you refused to listen to me. So now we are being punished for what we did to him."

Genesis 42:29
The brothers went to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him everything that had happened.

Genesis 42:30
They said, "The master of that land spoke unkindly to us. He accused us of spying on his country,

1 Kings 2:32
Without my father knowing it, he killed two men who were much better than he was—Abner son of Ner, the commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, the commander of Judah's army. So the Lord will pay him back for those deaths.

2 Chronicles 24:22
King Joash did not remember Jehoiada's kindness to him, so Joash killed Zechariah, Jehoiada's son. Before Zechariah died, he said, "May the Lord see what you are doing and punish you."

Psalms 9:12
He remembers who the murderers are; he will not forget the cries of those who suffer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 and taken, and dragged out, as beasts are taken in a pit, and with a snare. Josephus b says, some the Romans killed, some they carried captive, some they searched out lurking in holes underground, and, breaking up the ground, took them out and slew them:

and they are hid in prison houses; being taken by their enemies out of their holes, they were put in prisons, some of them, and there lay confined, out of which they could not deliver themselves:

and they are for a prey, and none delivereth; when they were taken by the Chaldeans, and became a prey to them, in a few years they had a deliverer, Cyrus, but now they have none:

for a spoil, and none saith, restore; there is none to be an advocate for them; no one that asks for their restoration; for almost seventeen hundred years a they have been in this condition, and yet none of the kings and princes of the earth have issued a proclamation for their return to their own land, as Cyrus did; and no one moves for it, either from among themselves or others.

a Written about 1730 A. D. The Jews in 1948 once again became a nation. Editor. b De Bello Jud. l. 7, c. 9. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 snared in holes - This passage has been variously rendered. Lowth renders it, ‘All their chosen youth are taken in the toils;’ following in this the translation of Jerome, and rendering it as Le Clerc and Houbigant do. The Septuagint read it, ‘And I saw, and the people were plundered and scattered, and the snare was in all their private chambers, and in their houses where they hid themselves;’ - meaning, evidently, that they had been taken by their invaders from the places where they had secreted themselves in their own city and country. The Chaldee renders it, ‘All their youth were covered with confusion, and shut up in prison.’ The Syriac, ‘All their youth are snared, and they have hid them bound in their houses.’ This variety of interpretation has arisen in part, because the Hebrew which is rendered in our version, ‘in holes’ (בחוּרים bachûrı̂ym) may be either the plural form of the word בצוּר bachûr (“chosen, selected”); and thence “youths” - selected for their beauty or strength; or it may be the plural form of the word חוּר chûr, “a hole” or “cavern,” with the preposition בּ (b) prefixed. Our translation prefers the latter; and this is probably the correct interpretation, as the parallel expression, ‘they are hid in prison-houses,’ seems to demand this. The literal interpretation of the passage is, therefore, that they were snared, or secured in the caverns, holes, or places of refuge where they sought security.

And they are hid in prison-houses - They were concealed in their houses as in prisons, so that they could not go out with safety, or without exposing themselves to the danger of being taken captive. The land was filled with their enemies, and they were obliged to conceal themselves, if possible, from their foes.

And none saith, Restore - There is no deliverer - no one who can interpose, and compel the foe to give up his captives. The sense is, the Jewish captives were so strictly confined in Babylon, and under a government so powerful, that there was no one who could rescue them, or that they were so much the object of contempt, that there were none who would feel so much interest in them as to demand them from their foes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.