Isaiah 42:22

"It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable."

Key Reflection

This verse indicates that God chose to elevate and honor His laws out of a sense of righteousness, ensuring they are treated with dignity and respect. Through this, He reinforces the importance and sacredness of obedience to His commands, reflecting His own just nature.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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.

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