Isaiah 52:3-5

Tree of Life Version

³ For thus says Adonai:
“You were sold for nothing.
So you will be redeemed without silver.”
⁴ For thus says Adonai Elohim:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to reside there,
    then the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.
⁵ “Now therefore, what do I have here?”
—it is a declaration of Adonai—
“My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”
—it is Adonai’s declaration—
“and My Name is continually blasphemed all day long.^[a]