For the Lord Yahweh says:“ My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

主耶和华如此说：起先我的百姓下到埃及，在那里寄居，又有亚述人无故欺压他们。

主耶和华如此说：“先前我的百姓下到埃及，在那里寄居，末后又有亚述人欺压他们。

主耶和华如此说：“先前我的百姓下到埃及，在那里寄居，末后又有亚述人欺压他们。

主耶和华说：“起先我的子民到埃及寄居，后来亚述人无缘无故地欺压他们。”

主耶和华这样说：“我的子民先前曾下到埃及，在那里寄居；后来有亚述人无缘无故地欺压了他们。

主耶和华如此说：“先前我的子民下到埃及，在那里寄居；后来亚述人无故地欺压他们。

主耶和華如此說：起先我的百姓下到埃及，在那裏寄居，又有亞述人無故欺壓他們。

主耶和華如此說：「先前我的百姓下到埃及，在那裏寄居，末後又有亞述人欺壓他們。

主耶和華如此說：「先前我的百姓下到埃及，在那裏寄居，末後又有亞述人欺壓他們。

主耶和華說：「起先我的子民到埃及寄居，後來亞述人無緣無故地欺壓他們。」

主耶和華這樣說：“我的子民先前曾下到埃及，在那裡寄居；後來有亞述人無緣無故地欺壓了他們。

因為主永恆主這麼說：我的人民起先下埃及、去寄居在那裏；後來有亞述人無緣無故欺壓他們。

主耶和華如此說：「先前我的子民下到埃及，在那裡寄居；後來亞述人無故地欺壓他們。

主耶和華曰、昔我民下埃及而寓之、亞述人無故虐遇之、

主耶和華又曰。昔我民往居埃及、後遭亞述人、無故虐遇、而我援之、

主天主如是云、昔我民往居伊及、後亞述人無故凌虐之、

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:“ At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.

The Lord and King continues,“ Long ago my people went down to Egypt. They lived there for a while. Later, Assyria crushed them without any reason.

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.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says:“ Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria.

For this is what the Lord GOD says:“ At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

For this is what the Lord God says:“ My people went down to Egypt first to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without reason.

For thus says the Lord GOD:“ My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

For this is what the Lord God says:“ At first My people went down to Egypt to live there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

For this is what the sovereign LORD says:“ In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt— Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

Yahweh said to Satan,“ Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law,‘ They hated me without a cause.’

“ Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.Rabshakeh said to them,“ Now tell Hezekiah,‘ The great king, the king of Assyria, says,“ What confidence is this in which you trust?I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.But if you tell me,‘ We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,‘ You shall worship before this altar?’”Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me,“ Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh,“ Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”But Rabshakeh said,“ Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said,“ Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!The king says,‘ Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying,“ Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says,‘ Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying,“ Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was,“ Don’t answer him.”Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy- five souls.Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,