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Isaiah 52:4

For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

KJV

Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus : In Ægyptum descendit populus meus in principio, ut colonus esset ibi, et Assur absque ulla causa calumniatus est eum.

Vulgate

Οὕτως λέγει κύριος Κύριος Εἰς Αἴγυπτον κατέβη ὁ λαός μου τὸ πρότερον παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ, καὶ εἰς Ἀσσυρίους βίᾳ ἤχθησαν·

LXX

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

ASV

כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֔ה מִצְרַ֛יִם יָֽרַד עַמִּ֥/י בָ/רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה לָ/ג֣וּר שָׁ֑ם וְ/אַשּׁ֖וּר בְּ/אֶ֥פֶס עֲשָׁקֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַפְסֵי
'psy
noun · 43×
אַשּׁ֔וּר
'shvr
noun · 151×
גָּ֣ר
gr
verb · 98×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
י
y
noun · 440×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהוִ֔ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 305×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
ם
m
verb · 34×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×
רִאשׁ֔וֹן
r'shvn
adjective · 180×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:14 — Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
  • Ezek 36:11 — And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall kno
  • Gen 46:6 — And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
  • Gen 46:6 — And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
  • Isa 42:22 — But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
  • Job 2:3 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdet
  • Ps 69:4 — They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.