Isaiah 52:3-6

New International Reader's Version

“When you were sold as slaves, no one paid anything for you.
    Now no one will pay any money to set you free.”

“Long ago my people went down to Egypt.
    They lived there for a while.
    Later, Assyria crushed them without any reason.

“Once again my people have been taken away.
    And no one paid anything for them.
Those who rule over them brag about it,”
    announces the Lord.
“All day long without stopping,
    people speak evil things against my name.
⁶ So the day will come when my people will really know the meaning of my name.
    They will know what kind of God I am.
They will know that I told them ahead of time they would return to their land.
    They will know that it was I.”