Old Testament Lesson

Isa. 52:3-6 (NRSV)

3For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. 4For thus says the Lord GOD: Long ago, my people
went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause. 5Now therefore what am I doing here, says the
LORD, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the LORD, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.
6Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.