Isaiah 52:3 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

KJV

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 2, 3.) Shake off the dust; arise, Jerusalem! Loose the bonds of your neck, captive daughter Zion. For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. LXX: Shake off the dust; arise, Jerusalem! Loose the bonds of your neck, captive daughter Zion. For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye have sold yourselves for nought - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made them prisoners had done so without paying any price for them, it was equitable that they should be released in the same manner. When their captors had paid nothing for them, God would suffer nothing to be paid for them in turn; and they should be released, as they had been sold, without a price paid for them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As you became your foes' servants, without their paying any price for you (Jer 15:13), so they shall release you without demanding any price or reward (Isa 45:13), (where Cyrus is represented as doing so: a type of their final restoration gratuitously in like manner).

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
כֹה֙	khoh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
חִנָּ֖ם	chi.Nam	for nothing	H2600 →
נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֑ם	nim.kar.Tem	you were sold	H4376 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
בְכֶ֖סֶף	ve.Khe.sef	with money	H3701 →
תִּגָּאֵֽלוּ׃	ti.ga.'E.lu	you will be redeemed	H1350 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:20
  you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
- Titus 2:14
  He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- 1 Corinthians 7:23
  You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
- Psalms 49:7–8
  No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
- Galatians 1:4
  who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Through
Isaiah 50:1
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:30
  How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 3:8
  She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
Through
Jeremiah 15:13
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
leads to
- Jeremiah 17:3
  O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah