Isaías 52:3

3 Porque así dice el SEÑOR:«Ustedes fueron vendidos por nada,y sin dinero serán redimidos».

Isaías 52:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 52:3

For thus saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought,
&c.] 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 antichrist, or by being slaves and vassals to them; not profit, but loss; not pleasure, but pain; not honour, but shame; not liberty, but bondage; not riches and wealth, but poverty and want, which Popery always brings into those countries and people where it obtains. And ye shall be redeemed without money;
in like manner as our spiritual and eternal redemption from sin, Satan, and the law, the world, death, and hell, is obtained; not without the price of the precious blood of the Lamb, but without such corruptible things as silver and gold, ( 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 ) and without any price paid to those by whom we are held captive, but to God, against whom we have sinned, whose law we have broken, and whose justice must be satisfied; and the blood of Christ is a sufficient price to answer all: hence redemption, though it cost Christ much, is entirely free to us; so will the redemption of the church, from the bondage and slavery of antichrist, be brought about by the power of God undeserved by them; not through their merits, and without any ransom price paid to those who held them captives.

Isaías 52:3 In-Context

1 ¡Despierta, Sión, despierta!¡Revístete de poder!Jerusalén, ciudad santa,ponte tus vestidos de gala,que los incircuncisos e impurosno volverán a entrar en ti.

2 ¡Sacúdete el polvo, Jerusalén!¡Levántate, vuelve al trono!¡Libérate de las cadenas de tu cuello,cautiva hija de Sión!

3 Porque así dice el SEÑOR:«Ustedes fueron vendidos por nada,y sin dinero serán redimidos».

4 Porque así dice el SEÑOR omnipotente:«En tiempos pasados,mi pueblo descendió a Egipto y vivió allí;en estos últimos tiempos,Asiria los ha oprimido sin razón.

5 »Y ahora —afirma el SEÑOR—, ¿qué estoy haciendo aquí?Sin motivo se han llevado a mi pueblo;sus gobernantes se mofan de él.No hay un solo momentoen que mi nombre no lo blasfemen.