American Standard Version
Isaiah 52:3
3For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 52:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
- New International Version (NIV)For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)For thus says the Lord: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."
- New King James Version (NKJV)For thus says the Lord: “You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money.”
Context of Isaiah 52:3
1Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause. 5Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
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כִּֽי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה חִנָּ֖ם נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֑ם וְלֹ֥א בְכֶ֖סֶף תִּגָּאֵֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 52:3
- Isaiah 45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.
- Isaiah 50:1Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
- Psalms 44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
- Jeremiah 15:13Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
- Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Commentaries on Isaiah 52:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Ye have sold yourselves for nought - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made them prisoners had done so without paying any price for them, it was equitable that they should be released in the same manner. When their captors had paid nothing for them, God would suffer nothing to be paid for them in turn; and they should be released, as…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3You were sold for nothing … you will be redeemed: The Lord was in control when he allowed his people to be captured by their enemies. He stayed in control and could save them if he wanted to.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. As you became your foes' servants, without their paying any price for you (Jr 15:13), so they shall release you without demanding any price or reward (Is 45:13), (where Cyrus is represented as doing so: a type of their final restoration gratuitously in like manner). So the spiritual Israel, "sold under sin," gratuitously (Ro 7:14), shall be redeemed also gratuitously (Is 55:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 52
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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