You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
Isaiah 52:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. Common English Bible The LORD proclaims: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed without money. |
You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.
Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
I have aroused Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his paths straight; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward, says the Lord of hosts.
Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.
They shall be called, “The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord,” and you shall be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”
For the day of vengeance was in my mind, and the year for my redeeming work had come.
Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
building your platform at the head of every street and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scorned payment.
The trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase. They shall be secure on their soil, and they shall know that I am the Lord when I break the bars of their yoke and save them from the hands of those who enslaved them.
And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go out in the Jubilee year.
You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold