Isaiah 52:3

For thus saith the LORD, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

Revised Version 1895

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

2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit thee down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion,

4For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:54And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, he, and his children with him.

Psalms 44:13Thou makest us a reproach 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.

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 →

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