For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”(A)
For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,(B)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[a]
So now what have I here”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that my people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.(C)
Therefore my people will know my name;(D)
therefore they will know on that day
that I am he who says,
‘Here I am.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 52:4 Or them at last, or them for nothing

For thus says Yahweh:

“You were sold for nothing,
    and you shall be redeemed without money.”

For thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him without cause.[a] And now what do I have here?”declares[b] Yahweh, “for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,” declares[c] Yahweh—“and my name is reviled continually, all day. Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. Here am I.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:4 Literally “in nothing”
  2. Isaiah 52:5 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Isaiah 52:5 Literally “declaration of”
  4. Isaiah 52:6 Literally “Look at me”