Isaiah 52:4

New International Reader's Version

The Lord and King continues, “Long ago my people went down to Egypt. They lived there for a while. Later, Assyria crushed them without any reason.

Cross References

Genesis 46:6

So Jacob and his whole family went to Egypt. They took their livestock with them. And they took everything they had acquired in Canaan.

Genesis 46:7

Jacob brought his sons and grandsons with him to Egypt. He also brought his daughters and granddaughters. He brought his whole family with him.

Job 2:3

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? There isn’t anyone on earth like him. He is honest. He does what is right. He has respect for God and avoids evil. You tried to turn me against him. You wanted me to destroy him without any reason. But he still continues to be faithful.”

Psalm 25:3

Those who put their hope in you will never be put to shame. But those who lie to other people for no reason will be put to shame.

Psalm 44:12

You sold your people for very little. You didn’t gain anything when you sold them.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without any reason are more than the hairs on my head. Many people who don’t have any reason to be my enemies are trying to destroy me. They force me to give back what I didn’t steal.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrians in my land. On my mountains I will walk all over them. The yokes they put on my people will be removed. The heavy load they put on their shoulders will be taken away.”

Jeremiah 50:17

“Israel is like a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first lion that ate them up was the king of Assyria. The last one that broke their bones was Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon.”

John 15:25

This has happened so that what is written in their Law would come true. It says, ‘They hated me without any reason.’ (Psalms 35:19; 69:4)