Isaiah 52:3
For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed without money.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 25:54And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
Psalms 44:13Thou hast sold thy people for no price : and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 52:2-7
Encouragement to Jerusalem. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Awake, 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. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the Lord , Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord God , My people went… Read the whole commentary →