Isaiah 52:5

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Isaiah 52:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

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

4 For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

5 And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

6 Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”

7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

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Isaiah 22:16

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

Judges 18:3

And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

Isaiah 52:3

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

Psalms 44:12

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 51:23

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

Exodus 1:13

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 1:15

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

Exodus 1:16

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”

Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Exodus 2:24

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 3:7

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:2

There on the willows we hung our harps,

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

Lamentations 1:21

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

Lamentations 2:3

In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Lamentations 5:15

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Isaiah 37:6

who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

Isaiah 37:28

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Psalms 44:16

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

Psalms 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalms 74:18

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Psalms 74:22

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Psalms 74:23

Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 36:20

And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’

Ezekiel 36:21

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

Ezekiel 36:22

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

Ezekiel 36:23

I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.

Romans 2:24

As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”