But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.
Ibn Ezra
שסוי Spoiled. This is a verb .שסה) ל׳׳ה) Comp. שוסים spoiling (1 Sam. 23:1). הפח Breathing. It is infinitive and has the same meaning as נפח, though of a different root (פוח). בחורים In holes. Comp. חור hole (11:8). They are imprisoned, occupying the lowest dungeons of all the captives. הׇשַׁב The Pathah is substituted for Zeré because the word is the end of the verse ; השב is transitive, and means restore, namely the spoil. Who among you will tell this, will tell things like those which the prophet, whom you declared to be blind, proclaimed. לאחור For the time to come. Comp. תאחרו you keep me waiting (Gen. 24:56); לפנים in former time is derived from פנה it has turned away ; it is gone.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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