Isaiah 52:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. ⁴ For thus says the Lord God: Long ago, my people went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause. ⁵ Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.