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 þe Lord God seith þese thingis, Mi puple in þe bigynnyng yede doun in to Egipt, þat it schulde be þere an erþe tiliere, and Assur falsli calengide it with out ony cause.