Isaiah 52:3

New International Reader's Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 44:12

You sold your people for very little. You didn’t gain anything when you sold them.

Psalm 44:13

You have made us something that our neighbors laugh at. Those who live around us make fun of us and tease us.

Isaiah 1:27

Zion will be saved when justice is done. Those who are sorry for their sins will be saved when what is right is done.

Isaiah 45:13

I will stir up Cyrus and help him win his battles. I will make all his roads straight. He will rebuild Jerusalem. My people have been taken away from their country. But he will set them free. I will not pay him to do it. He will not receive a reward for it,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says to the people in Jerusalem, “Do you think I divorced your people who lived before you? Is that why I sent them away? If it is, show me the letter of divorce. I did not sell you into slavery to pay someone I owe. You were sold because you sinned against me. Your people were sent away because of their lawless acts.

Isaiah 62:12

They will be called the Holy People. They will be called the People the Lord Set Free. And Jerusalem will be named the City the Lord Cares About. It will be named the City No Longer Deserted.

Isaiah 63:4

I decided it was time to pay back Israel’s enemies. The year for me to set my people free had come.

Jeremiah 15:13

I will give away your wealth and your treasures. Your enemies will carry off everything. And they will not pay anything for it. That will happen because you have sinned so much. You have done it throughout your country.

Ezekiel 16:31

Your people built up mounds at every street corner. You put little places of worship on them in every market. But you did not really act like a prostitute. That’s because you refused to let your lovers pay you anything.

Ezekiel 34:27

The trees will bear their fruit. And the ground will produce its crops. The people will be secure in their land. I will break the chains that hold them. I will save them from the power of those who made them slaves. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Leviticus 25:54

“ ‘Suppose they are not bought back in any of those ways. Then they and their children must still be set free in the Year of Jubilee.

1 Peter 1:18

You were set free from an empty way of life. This way of life was handed down to you by your own people of long ago. You know that you were not bought with things that can pass away, like silver or gold.