Devine Scripture

Isaiah 52:5

Isaiah chapter 52 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

Context

v.4For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

v.5This passage

v.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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 52:3

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

  • Psalms 44:12

    Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.

  • Isaiah 47:6

    I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

  • Isaiah 51:23

    and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

  • Ezekiel 36:20

    And when they came unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and are gone forth out of his land.

  • Isaiah 51:20

    Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.