3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. God’s people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa. 52:1 , 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; let them awake from their despondency, and pluck up their spirits, encourage themselves and one another with the hope that all will be well yet…
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