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 Is 52:5; it was an act of gratuitous oppression in the present case, as in that case.