Redeemed Without Money

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PASSAGE: Isaiah 52:1-15

COMMENT: This chapter looks forward to the time of the restoration of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. They are to be “redeemed without money” (v.3) because the servant who suffered (v.13-14) will sprinkle many nations (v.15). Therefore, they should awake (v.1), shake themselves (v.2), sing together (v.9), and depart from the unclean thing (v.11).

WHAT DOES IT SAY?

1. Jerusalem is commanded to shake itself from the _______, arise, and _______ down.

2. The Lord will deliver because His name continually every day is ______________.

3. The watchmen will lift up the voice and shall see _____ to _______ when the Lord shall bring again ________.

4. The Lord has made ________ His holy _______ in the eyes of all the nations.

5. By His suffering, the Lord’s servant shall __________ many nations.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

1. Verses seven and eleven are quoted in the New Testament. Where are they quoted? What do these verses mean here in Isaiah? To what does they specifically refer in the New Testament?

2. What is the meaning of “rereward” in verse twelve [check a good dictionary; “rereward” is another spelling for “rearward” and is related to “rear guard”]? In what way is God the rereward of Israel?

3. To whom does verse fourteen refer? What is the verse talking about?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME?

1. This chapter has two repeated commands. “Awake, awake” (v.1) and “Depart ye, depart ye” (v.11). Why are these particular commands repeated? What is their significance?

2. In verse three, the Lord says, “Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.” What do these two statements mean? The following references may help: Psalm 44:12; Isaiah 50:1; 55:1; 52:5.

SUGGESTED MEMORY VERSES: Isaiah 52:3, 7, 10, 11, 14

TEXT: 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 the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now 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.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

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