◄ Isaiah 52:3 ►
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Good News Translation
The Sovereign LORD says to his people, "When you became slaves, no money was paid for you; in the same way nothing will be paid to set you free.

New Revised Standard Version
For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD says: My people, you were sold, but not for money; now you will be set free, but not for a payment.

New American Bible
For thus says the LORD: For nothing you were sold, without money you shall be redeemed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.

Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Psalm 44:12 Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.

Jeremiah 15:13 Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

1 Peter 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin. . . .

Context
Deliverance for Jerusalem
…2Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion. 3For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.4For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without any cause at all.…
Cross References
1 Peter 1:18
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

Psalm 44:12
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.

Isaiah 1:27
Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Isaiah 62:12
And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.

Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come.

Jeremiah 15:13
Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

Ezekiel 16:31
Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,

Ezekiel 34:27
And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the bonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that rule over them.

Isaiah 52:2
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