and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
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TSK · Isaiah 52:5
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The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.
How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!
‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.
I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.
Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the LORD’s anger, by the battle cry of your God.
For this is what the LORD says:“You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”
ש(Sin/Shin) They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me!
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
On that day,” says the LORD,“a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.