For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
- BSB For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
- ESV And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.”
- NKJV For now I will break off his yoke from you, And burst your bonds apart.”
- NASB “So now, I will break his yoke from upon you, And I will tear your shackles to pieces.”
- NLT Now I will break the yoke of bondage from your neck and tear off the chains of Assyrian oppression.”
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Quick answer
God promises to break Assyria's yoke off his people and burst their bonds apart. He pledges liberation from oppression.
Overview
The yoke and bonds picture the heavy servitude Assyria imposed on Judah and surrounding nations. God himself takes responsibility for breaking these chains, displaying his role as deliverer. This deliverance prefigures the greater liberation Christ brings, freeing his people from the yoke of sin and the bondage of death.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 10:27And 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.
- Isa 9:4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
- Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
- Jer 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Isa 14:25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
- Jer 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
- Mic 5:5–6And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
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Christ at the center
The certain judgment on Nineveh and the comfort that 'the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble' point to Christ, who is both the refuge of his people and the judge of their enemies.
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