But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
But this is a people robbed and spoiled - through their own fault, whereas they might have had the Lord as their sure protector, if they had not forsaken Him. But the ordinary sense of the Hebrew and the old versions, the Septuagint, Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac, support the English version.
(They are) all of them snared in holes - caught by their foes in the caverns where they had sought refuge. Or, bound in subterranean dungeons (Maurer). Compare the capture of Zedekiah and his princes by the Babylonians (2 Kings 25:5-7; Lamentations 4:20, "The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits;" Ezekiel 12:13, "he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon;" Ezekiel 19:4; Ezekiel 19:8, "holes" is probably an image taken from the pitfalls or pits in which wild beasts were snared).
And they are hid in prison houses - either literal prisons or their own houses, whence they dare not go forth for fear of the enemy. The connection is, Notwithstanding God's favour to His people for His righteousness' sake (Isaiah 42:21), they have fallen into misery (the Babylonian and Romish captivities, and their present dispersion), owing to their disregard of the divine law: spiritual imprisonment is included (Isaiah 42:7).
None saith, Restore - there is no deliverer (Isaiah 63:5).