Isa 52:4 | JFB | STEP | 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)? without cause —answering to "for naught" in ; it was an act of gratuitous oppression in the present case, as in that case.

Isaiah 52:4

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)?

without cause—answering to "for naught" in Isa 52:5; it was an act of gratuitous oppression in the present case, as in that case.