Isa 52:5, Eze 36:20, 23 | ESV | STEP | Now therefore what have I here , declares the Lord , seeing that my people are taken away for nothing ? Their rulers wail , declares the Lord , and continually all the day my name is despised .

d[ch. 30:19, 26; 38:23; 39:7, 21]; See ch. 6:7

Isaiah 52:5

5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^acontinually all the day my name is despised.

Ezekiel 36:20

20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^bthey profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’

Ezekiel 36:23

23 ^cAnd I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. ^dAnd the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.