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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
- 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 the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
- 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
- Isa 14:25that 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.
- Ps 105:15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- 1 Jn 2:20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
- Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- Nah 1:9–13What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
- Ps 20:6Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
- 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
- Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Ps 132:17–18There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
- 2 Sam 1:21You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
- Ps 84:9Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
- Ps 89:20–52I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- Acts 4:27“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- 2 Kgs 18:13–14Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
- Isa 37:35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
- Ps 132:10For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
- Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- John 1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).
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