For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,(A)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 52:4 Or them at last, or them for nothing

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.

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