Isaiah 52:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye were sold for [a]naught; therefore shall ye be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went [b]down afore time into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria [c]oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for naught, and they that rule over them, make them to howl, saith the Lord? and my Name all the day continually is [d]blasphemed?
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- Isaiah 52:3 The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you: therefore I will take you again without ransom.
- Isaiah 52:4 When Jacob went thither in time of famine.
- Isaiah 52:4 The Egyptians might pretend some cause to oppress my people because they went thither, and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore will I punish them more than I did the Egyptians.
- Isaiah 52:5 To wit, by the wicked, which think that I have no power to deliver them.
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