What Does Isaiah 42:22 Mean?

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“But this is a people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“robbed”

to plunder

“and spoiled”

to plunder

“they are all of them snared”

to spread a net

“in holes”

the crevice of a serpent; the cell of a prison

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“houses”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“in prison”

a prison

“and they are hid”

to secrete

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“they are for a prey”

plunder

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“and none delivereth”

to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense

“for a spoil”

plunder

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“and none saith”

to say (used with great latitude)

“Restore”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);