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Isaiah 52:5 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 52 · verse 5
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.Isaiah 52:5 · King James Version
Isaiah 52:5 in context
3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
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Key words (Strong's)
- continuallytâmîydproperly, continuanceH8548 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- noughtchinnâmgratisH2600 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- awaylâqachto takeH3947 →
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Here, I. God's people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa 52:1, Isa 52:2. They had desired that God would awake and put on his strength, Isa 51:9. Here he calls upon them to awake and put on their strength, to bestir themselves;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6