Isaiah 52:4 (BSB)
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
From Isaiah 52. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Isaiah 52:4
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 52:1-6: Here, I. God's people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa 52:1, Isa 52:2. They had desired that God would awake and put on his strength, Isa 51:9. Here he calls upon them to awake and put on their strength, to bestir themselves; let them awake from their despondency, and pluck up their spirits, encourage themselves and one another with the...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 52:4: For thus saith the Lord God,.... The Lord confirms what he had before said of redeeming his people without money, who had been sold for nothing, by past instances of his deliverance of them: my people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; Jacob and his family went down there of their own accord, where they were supplied with food in a time of...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 52:4: My people--Jacob and his sons. went down--Judea was an elevated country compared with Egypt. sojourn--They went there to stay only till the famine in Canaan should have ceased. Assyrian--Sennacherib. Remember how I delivered you from Egypt and the Assyrian; what, then, is to prevent Me from delivering you out of Babylon (and the mystical Babylon and the Antichrist in the last days)?
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Isaiah 52:4: For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down in times past into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. (d) When Jacob went there in times of famine. (e) The Egyptians might pretend some reason to oppress my people because they went there and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and...