English Standard Version
Isaiah 52:3
3For thus says the Lord: "You were sold for nothing, and you 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.”
- New King James Version (NKJV)For thus says the Lord: “You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)For this is what the Lord says: “When I sold you into exile, I received no payment. Now I can redeem you without having to pay for you.”
Context of Isaiah 52:3
1Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus says the Lord: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money." 4For thus says the Lord God: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 5Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
Read all of Isaiah 52Isaiah 52:3 word by word
כִּֽי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה חִנָּ֖ם נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֑ם וְלֹ֥א בְכֶ֖סֶף תִּגָּאֵֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 52:3
- Isaiah 45:13I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward," says the Lord of hosts.
- Isaiah 50:1Thus says the Lord: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Psalms 44:12You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
- Jeremiah 15:13"Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
- Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, 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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