Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 52:3
Sold yourselves — By your sins, without any valuable consideration paid by them either to you, or to your Lord and owner. Without money — Without paying any ransom.
Sold yourselves — By your sins, without any valuable consideration paid by them either to you, or to your Lord and owner. Without money — Without paying any ransom.
YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES FOR NOUGHT - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made th...
CHAPTER 52 Zion Awakening and the Coming of the Lord (It is unfortunate that Isaiah 52:1 is detached from chapter 51 and that the last 3 verses of chapter 52 are detached from the chapter which follo...
ISAIAH 51:17 TO ISAIAH 52:12. THE SORROW OF JERUSALEM, WHICH SHALL GIVE PLACE TO JOY. Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, obviously familiar with the vision of...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. REDEEMED. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6. WITHOUT MONEY. not with silver. Compare 1 Peter 1:18....
Isaiah 51:17 to Isaiah 52:12. The Lord will turn the Captivity of Zion The three oracles into which this passage naturally falls are these: (1) Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, returning to the thought wit...
_Ye have sold yourselves_ R.V. YE WERE SOLD; See on ch. Isaiah 50:1; cf. Psalms 44:12. _redeemed without money_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 45:13. Jehovah _gained_nothing by delivering Israel into the hand of its...
There is here a sudden change both in form and subject. The rhythmic structure of the preceding verses gives place to prose, and the figure of Jerusalem arising from the dust is altogether abandoned....
DISCOURSE: 960 DESPONDENCY REPROVED Isaiah 52:1. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD— In the third verse, which sets forth the true redemption of the church of Christ, we have the foundation of the preceding exhortation; of which this redemption was the true an...
EVANGELIZE, CHAPTER 52 a. REDEMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 52:1-6 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more...
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES FOR NOUGHT; AND YE SHALL BE REDEEMED WITHOUT MONEY - As you became your...
1, 2. Zion invited to array herself as a queen and sit enthroned, freed from the presence of heathen foes, and with her children restored from captivity....
Her captors paid no price, and therefore have no claim upon her....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 52 GOD WILL RESCUE *JERUSALEM V1 Awake, awake, inhabitants of *Jerusalem! Be strong an...
YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES... — Literally, _ye were sold._ The people had complained that Jehovah had “sold them” into the hands of their enemies (Psalms 44:12). “Not so,” is the answer. “There was no re...
כִּֽי ־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה חִנָּ֖ם נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֑ם...
BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...
“THY GOD REIGNETH!” Isaiah 52:1-15 It is not God that has become lethargic; but _we_ that have slept and need to awake. Being awakened, we discover that two sets of attire are waiting for us: First,...
The second message (verses Isa 52:1-6) calls on Zion to awake and put on her strength and her beautiful garments, because she is to be cleansed of all internal defilement. Though she had been sold int...
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for (c) nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money. (c) The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you: therefore I will take you again without ranso...
_Money. The Chaldeans acted impolitically in leaving the country without inhabitants, and Cyrus will derive no immediate advantage from your return. (Calmet) --- The Jews had not injured the Chaldeans...
3._For thus saith Jehovah. _This verse has been badly expounded by many commentators, who have here chosen to enter into philosophical subtleties; for they have dreamed of many things at variance with...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 51 AND 52. The application is found in Chapter s 51 and 52 to the end of Verse 12 (Isaiah 52:1-12), and that to the remnant of Israel. In Isaiah 51:13 a fresh...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES FOR NOUGHT,.... As Ahab did to work wickedness; as men do freely, and get nothing by it; for there is nothing got in the service of sin, Satan, and ant...
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. Ver. 3. _For thus saith the Lord._] Thus he pleadeth the cause of his people. Isa 51:22 _ Ye have...
_Awake, awake, put on strength_ God orders his church to do that which she entreated him to do, Isaiah 51:9. And because his word is with power, and what he commands he in certain cases effects, this...
For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for naught, He Himself having given them into the power of their enemies, but without receiving anything in return; AND YE SHALL BE REDEEMED WITHOUT MO...
THE PROMISE OF REDEMPTION...
1-12 The gospel proclaims liberty to those bound with fears. Let those weary and heavy laden under the burden of sin, find relief in Christ, shake themselves from the dust of their doubts and fears,...
YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES, by your sins, into the hands of the Chaldeans, FOR NOUGHT; without any price or valuable consideration paid by them, either to you or to me, your Lord and Owner. YE SHALL BE R...
Isaiah 52:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 sold H4376 (H8738) nothing H2600 redeemed H1350 (H8735) money...
CHAPTER 52 THE CALL TO JERUSALEM - THE RISE OF THE SERVANT. The Third Call to Awake - Spoken To Zion/Jerusalem As The Redeemed Woman (Isaiah 52:1). Yahweh Will Redeem His People (Isaiah 52:1) The dr...
REDEEMED Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
CONTENTS: Vision of Jerusalem in the Kingdom age. Jehovah's servant marred and afterward exalted. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Let God's people prepare for eternal joy, for His Word shall wi...
Isaiah 52:1. _There shall no more come to thee the uncircumcised._ The temple being often profaned after the captivity, this prophecy must have an ultimate reference to the glory of the church in the...
_For thus saith the Lord, Ye have mold yourselves for nought_ SOLD FOR NOUGHT; REDEEMED WITHOUT PRICE “Ye have sold yourselves for nought. ” You got nothing by it, nor did I. God considers that whe...
_Awake, awake_ THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A CHURCH’S STRENGTH I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ELEMENTS OF STRENGTH. I use the word constitution in a legitimate sense, as including both the creed and the polity...
SELLING AND REDEEMING THE SOUL Isaiah 52:3. _For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought, &c._ The Jews had gone headlong into sin, and as a punishment they had been carried captive t...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 52:1 FURTHER ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET TO JERUSALEM. Zion is exhorted to rise from the dust, throw off her bonds, and assert her freedom (Isaiah 52:1
Now again God cries for them. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem (Isaiah 52:1), There's a day coming of just, "Put on your glorious garments and ge...
1 Peter 1:18; Isaiah 45:13; Isaiah 50:1; Jeremiah 15:13; Psalms 44:12