For thus saith the Lord God, My people went [a]down afore time into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria [b]oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for naught, and they that rule over them, make them to howl, saith the Lord? and my Name all the day continually is [c]blasphemed?

Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day, that I am he that do speak: behold, it is I.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:4 When Jacob went thither in time of famine.
  2. Isaiah 52:4 The Egyptians might pretend some cause to oppress my people because they went thither, and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore will I punish them more than I did the Egyptians.
  3. Isaiah 52:5 To wit, by the wicked, which think that I have no power to deliver them.

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“At first my people went down to Egypt(A) to live;
    lately, Assyria(B) has oppressed them.

“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord.

“For my people have been taken away for nothing,
    and those who rule them mock,[a]
declares the Lord.
“And all day long
    my name is constantly blasphemed.(C)
Therefore my people will know(D) my name;(E)
    therefore in that day(F) they will know
that it is I who foretold(G) it.
    Yes, it is I.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail