Isaiah 52:4

New English Translation

For this is what the sovereign Lord says: “In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

Cross References

Genesis 46:6

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

Genesis 46:7

He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters – all his descendants.

Job 2:3

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

Psalm 25:3

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.

Psalm 44:12

You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

Isaiah 14:25

I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.

Jeremiah 50:17

“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

John 15:25

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’