Isaiah 42:21-25

Common English Bible

²¹The Lord desired for the sake of his righteousness
    to expand and glorify the Instruction.
²²But this is a people plundered and looted,
    everyone trapped in holes and hidden in dungeons.
They have become plunder with no one to rescue,
    loot with no one to say, “Give it back.”

²³Which of you will listen to this,
    will pay attention and respond from now on?
²⁴Who gave Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Wasn’t it the Lord,
    the one we sinned against?
They were not willing to walk in God’s ways,
    and wouldn’t listen to his teaching.
²⁵So God poured out on Jacob the heat of his anger
    and the fury of battle.
It scorched him, and he didn’t know it;
    it burned him, but he didn’t give it much thought.