For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went (d) down in times past into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian (e) oppressed them without cause.
(d) When Jacob went there in times of famine.
(e) The Egyptians might pretend some reason to oppress my people because they went there and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore I will punish them more than I did the Egyptians.