Isaiah 52:4
Thus saith the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.
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3For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver.
Cross References
Genesis 46:6And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him.
Job 2:3And the Lord said to the devil, 1 Hast thou then observed my servant Job, 1 That there is none of men upon the earth like him, 1 A harmless, true, blameless, godly man, 1 Abstaining from all evil? 1 And he yet cleaves to innocence, 1 Whereas thou hast told me to destroy his substance without cause? 1
Psalms 69:4Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. 1
Isaiah 36:1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judea, and took them.
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 →