Isaiah 42:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for a prey, and no one delivers; for a plunder, and no one says, 'Restore.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃

Transliteration

And he ʿam-bāzûz and šāsûy, hāpēaḥ baḥûrîm all of them and in bātēy kelāʾîm hoḥbāʾû; hāyû for lābaz and there is no maṣṣîl, mešissâ and there is none saying hāšav.

Grammar Details

• *ʿam-bāzûz*: masculine noun construct with passive participle - a plundered people
• *šāsûy*: qal passive participle masculine singular - spoiled/robbed/plundered
• *hāpēaḥ*: hophal infinitive absolute - trapped/ensnared
• *baḥûrîm*: masculine plural noun - young men/choice men
• *bātēy*: construct plural of *bayit* - houses of
• *kelāʾîm*: masculine plural noun - prisons/dungeons
• *hoḥbāʾû*: hophal perfect 3rd person plural - they were hidden/they were concealed
• *hāyû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - they have become
• *lābaz*: preposition with masculine noun - for plunder
• *maṣṣîl*: hiphil participle masculine singular - deliverer/rescuer
• *mešissâ*: feminine singular noun - spoil/booty/plunder
• *hāšav*: hiphil imperative masculine singular - restore/return

Word Meanings

• *bāzûz*: plundered/spoiled/robbed
• *šāsûy*: spoiled/looted/plundered
• *hāpēaḥ*: trapped/ensnared/caught
• *baḥûrîm*: young men/choice men/selected ones
• *kelāʾîm*: prisons/dungeons/places of confinement
• *hoḥbāʾû*: were hidden/were concealed/were imprisoned
• *lābaz*: for plunder/for spoil/for looting
• *maṣṣîl*: deliverer/rescuer/savior
• *mešissâ*: spoil/plunder/booty/loot
• *hāšav*: restore/return/give back

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they are loot, with no one to say, 'Restore them.'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But this is a people{H5971} robbed{H962} and plundered;{H8154} they are all of them snared{H6351} in holes,{H2352} and they are hid{H2244} in prison -{H3608} houses:{H1004} they are for a prey,{H957} and none delivereth;{H5337} for a spoil,{H4933} and none saith,{H559} Restore.{H7725}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But this is a people{H5971} robbed{H962}{(H8803)} and spoiled{H8154}{(H8803)}; they are all of them snared{H6351}{(H8687)} in holes{H2352}{(H8676)}{H970}, and they are hid{H2244}{(H8717)} in prison{H3608} houses{H1004}: they are for a prey{H957}, and none delivereth{H5337}{(H8688)}; for a spoil{H4933}, and none saith{H559}{(H8802)}, Restore{H7725}{(H8685)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But it is a myscheuous & wiked people. Their yonge men belonge all to the snare, & shalbe shut in to preson houses. They shal be caried awaye captyue and no man shal lowse them. They shal be trode vnder fote, & no man shal laboure to bringe the agayne.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But this people is robbed & spoiled, and shalbe all snared in dungeons, and they shalbe hid in prison houses: they shall be for a pray, and none shall deliuer: a spoile, and none shall say, Restore.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And this `is' a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But this is a people robbed and plundered; 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But this is a people robbed and plundered; 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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!”

Referenced Verses

• Isa 14:17 : 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?
• Isa 18:2 : 2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and polished, to a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled, whose land the rivers have ravaged!
• Isa 24:18 : 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare, for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
• Isa 24:22 : 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 they shall be visited.
• Isa 36:1 : 1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
• Isa 42:7 : 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• Isa 45:13 : 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build My city, and he shall let go My captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may go over:' and you have laid your body like the ground, and like the street, for those who went over.'
• Isa 52:4-5 : 4 For thus says the Lord GOD, My people went down previously into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
• Isa 56:9 : 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
• Jer 51:34-35 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
• Jer 52:4-9 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it, and built forts against it all around. 5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were all around the city:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
• Jer 52:31 : 31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,
• Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
• Luke 21:20-24 : 20 And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of it depart out, and let not those who are in the countries enter into it. 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• Deut 28:29-33 : 29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you. 30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof. 31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand. 33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:
• Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
• Ps 102:20 : 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,
• Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.