Isa 52:4-5 | ESV | STEP | For thus says the Lord God : My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there , and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing .

Isaiah 52:4-5

4 For thus says the Lord God: ^a“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. ^{▼▼Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late} 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^ccontinually all the day my name is despised.