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イザヤ記 42:22
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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
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.