Isaiah 52:3-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.(A) 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.(B) 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.(C) 6 Therefore my people shall know my name; on[a] that day they shall know that it is I who speak—it is I!(D)
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Isaiah 52:3-6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”(A)
4 For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,(B)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[a]
5 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)
6 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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- Isaiah 52:4 Or them at last, or them for nothing
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