Isaiah 52:3
For thus saith the LORD: Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 he be not redeemed by any of these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.
Psalms 44:13(44-14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the LORD: 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.
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 →