Isaiah 42:22

New American Bible - revised edition

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

Cross References

Psalm 102:20

“The Lord looked down from the holy heights, viewed the earth from heaven,

Psalm 50:22

“Now understand this, you who forget God, lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

Isaiah 14:17

Who made the world a wilderness, razed its cities, and gave captives no release?”

Isaiah 18:2

Sending ambassadors by sea, in papyrus boats on the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed, To a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.

Isaiah 24:18

One who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; One who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 24:22

They will be gathered together like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.

Isaiah 24:3

The earth shall be utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the Lord has decreed this word.

Isaiah 36:1

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give ear to this, listen and pay attention from now on?

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

Isaiah 45:13

It was I who stirred him up for justice; all his ways I make level. He shall rebuild my city and let my exiles go free Without price or payment, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 5:29

They roar like the lion, like young lions, they roar; They growl and seize the prey, they carry it off and none can rescue.

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, those who said to you, “Bow down, that we may walk over you.” So you offered your back like the ground, like the street for them to walk on.

Isaiah 56:9

All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest!

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 52:31

In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison.