Isaiah 52:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 52

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.

Isaiah 52:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Zephaniah 1:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Psalms 74:22-23
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. …
Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Psalms 137:1-2
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …

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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, an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. what have I here--that is, what am I called on to do? The fact “that My people is taken away (into captivity; Is 49:24, 25) for naught” (by gratuitous oppression, Is 52:4; also Is 52:3, and see on Is 52:3) demands My interposition. they that rule--or “tyrannize,” namely, Babylon, literal and mystical. make ... to howl--or, raise a cry of exultation over them [Maurer]. blasphemed--namely, in Bab…