On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
Parallel translations
- WEB It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
- KJV And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
- NKJV It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
- NASB So it will be on that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
- NLT In that day the Lord will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders.
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Quick answer
In that day Assyria's yoke and burden will be lifted off Israel's neck. Oppression will be broken by God's appointed deliverance.
Overview
The 'burden' and 'yoke' of Assyrian domination will be removed, the yoke 'destroyed because of the anointing oil' — language pointing to God's anointing power, and ultimately to deliverance through his Anointed One. The image of a broken yoke recurs in the gospel, where Christ gives rest and lifts the heavy burden (Matt. 11:28-30).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- Isa 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
- Ps 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- 1 Jn 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
- Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Nah 1:9–13Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- Ps 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
- 1 Jn 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
- Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Ps 132:17–18There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
- 2 Sam 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- Ps 84:9Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.
- Ps 89:20–52I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
- 2 Kgs 18:13–14In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- Isa 37:35‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Ps 132:10For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
- Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- John 1:41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
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