Isaiah 52:4
For thus says the Lord God: My people descended into Egypt, in the beginning, in order to sojourn there. But the Assyrian oppressed them, without any cause at all.
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3For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.
Cross References
Genesis 46:6along with all that he possessed in the land of Canaan. And he arrived in Egypt with all his offspring:
Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose.”
Psalms 69:4May those who wish evils upon me be turned back and blush with shame. May they be turned away immediately, blushing with shame, who say to me: “Well, well.”
Isaiah 36:1And it happened that, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he seized them.
John 15:25But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 52:2-7
Encouragement to Jerusalem. ( b. c. 706.) 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… Read the whole commentary →