Teks -- Isaiah 42:22 (NET)

42:22 But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Isa 42:22 - But

But not withstanding this respect which God hath to his people, he hath severely scourged you for your sins.

Wesley: Isa 42:22 - Hid

They have been taken in snares made by their own hands, and by God's just judgment cast into dungeons and prisons.

Wesley: Isa 42:22 - None

None afforded them help.

JFB: Isa 42:22 - holes

Caught by their foes in the caverns where they had sought refuge [BARNES]. Or bound in subterranean dungeons [BARNES].

JFB: Isa 42:22 - 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 (Isa 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 (Isa 42:7).

JFB: Isa 42:22 - none saith, Restore

There is no deliverer (Isa 63:5).

Clarke: Isa 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.

Calvin: Isa 42:22 - But this people // They shall be made a spoil

22.But this people Isaiah now declares that it is through their own fault that the people are miserable and appointed to destruction, because they reject God, who would otherwise have been inclined to do good to them, and because they deliberately set aside all remedies, and wish for death, as is commonly the case with men who are past hope. Thus he excuses God in such a manner as to bring a heavy accusation against the people, because they have rejected him by their ingratitude, and have abused his fatherly kindness. Yet, as I remarked a little before, he mentions these things, not so much for the sake of excusing God, as of bringing a bitter complaint, that his countrymen have leagued to their destruction; because, as if on set purpose, they have precipitated themselves into many calamities. If, then, we see the Church, at the present day, in a ruinous and revolting condition, we ought to ascribe it to our iniquities and transgressions, by which we do not suffer God to do good to us.

The copulative ו (vau) is rendered by some therefore; but I have preferred to translate it but; for it states a contrast to that desire by which the Lord declared that he was prompted to defend his people, if they had permitted it. I choose to interpret הפח (hapheach) as a gerundial participle, about to be snared; for he speaks of a nation which was about to be led into captivity. As to בהורים , ( bahurim,) I think that two words, instead of one, are here used to signify in dens; for to translate the word young men, appears to me to be at variance with the context.

They shall be made a spoil They who interpret this as relating to the whole human race, who have no Savior but Christ, (Joh 8:36,) adduce nothing that corresponds to the Prophet’s meaning; for he simply declares that the people shall perish without hope of deliverance, because they rejected the grace of God. Let us infer from this what must befall us, if we do not in due time embrace the grace of God offered to us. We shall certainly deserve to be deprived of all aid, to be exposed as a prey and a spoil, and utterly to perish.

TSK: Isa 42:22 - a people // they are all of them snared // are hid // a spoil

a people : Isa 1:7, Isa 18:2, Isa 36:1, Isa 52:4, Isa 52:5, Isa 56:9; Jer 50:17, Jer 51:34, Jer 51:35, Jer 52:4-11; Luk 19:41-44, Luk 21:20-24

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

are hid : Isa 42:7, Isa 14:17, Isa 45:13; Psa 102:20; Jer 52:31

a spoil : Heb. a treading, Isa 51:23; Deu 28:29-33; Psa 50:22

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Isa 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 // None delivereth; none saith, Restore

But this is a people robbed and spoiled: but notwithstanding this great respect which God hath to his law, and to his people for the sake of his law, it is apparent that God hath severely scourged you for your sins; and therefore take heed that you do not provoke him by your obstinate infidelity, lest he cast you off for ever.

They are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses they are, or 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.

None delivereth; none saith, Restore none afford them either pity or help in their extremities.

Haydock: Isa 42:22 - Men

Men, whom they corrupt by their bad example. (Haydock) ---

Hebrew, "their young men are in chains," during the last wars, and the captivity of Juda. (Calmet)

Gill: Isa 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 // and they are for a prey, and none delivereth // for a spoil, and none saith, restore

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.