Isaiah 52:5
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.
KJV
Et nunc quid mihi est hic, dicit Dominus, quoniam ablatus est populus meus gratis ? Dominatores ejus inique agunt, dicit Dominus, et jugiter tota die nomen meum blasphematur.
Vulgate
καὶ νῦν τί ὧδέ ἐστε; τάδε λέγει Κύριος Ὅτι ἐλήμφθη ὁ λαός μου δωρεάν, θαυμάζετε καὶ ὀλολύζετε. τάδε λέγει Κύριος Δι’ ὑμᾶς διὰ παντὸς τὸ ὄνομά μου βλασφημεῖται ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.
LXX
Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
ASV
וְ/עַתָּ֤ה מי ל/י מַה לִּ/י פֹה֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖/י חִנָּ֑ם משל/ו מֹשְׁלָ֤י/ו יְהֵילִ֨ילוּ֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה וְ/תָמִ֥יד כָּל הַ/יּ֖וֹם שְׁמִ֥/י מִנֹּאָֽץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Rom 2:24 · paraphrase"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written."Isaiah: the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles — Paul adapts
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. If you remember our former reflections, we shall the more zealously proceed with the building up of what remains, as doing so for great gain. For so will our discourse be more intelligible to you who remember what has been already said, and we shall not need much labor, because you are able through your great love of learning to see more clearly into what remains. The man wh…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210206.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 12:14 — Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
- Exod 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
- Ezek 36:20 — And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
- Isa 48:11 — For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
- Jer 15:13 — Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
- Ps 74:22 — Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
- Rom 2:24 — For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
- Rom 2:24 — For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.