Isaiah 52:5

Seeing His people taken for nothing and His name blasphemed, God declares He must act.

Cross-references · 26

• Rom 2:24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
• Exod 1:13–16The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
• Exod 3:7Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• Jer 50:17“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
• Judg 18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
• Isa 37:6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
• Isa 52:3For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”
• Isa 51:23and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
• Isa 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
• Isa 47:6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
• Isa 22:16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
• Lam 2:3He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
• Exod 2:23–24In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
• Lam 1:21“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
• Ezek 20:14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 36:20–23When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone out of his land.
• Zeph 1:10In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
• Ps 137:1–2By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
• Ps 44:16At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 44:12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
• Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• Ps 74:22–23Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
• Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
• Lam 5:13–15The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

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