Jeremiah 30:8
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8 For in that day,”
says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
“I will break the yoke from their necks
and snap their chains.
Foreigners will no longer be their masters.
Ezekiel 34:27
New Living Translation
27 The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the Lord.
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Nahum 1:13
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13 Now I will break the yoke of bondage from your neck
and tear off the chains of Assyrian oppression.”
Jeremiah 27:2
New Living Translation
2 This is what the Lord said to me: “Make a yoke, and fasten it on your neck with leather straps.
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Isaiah 9:4
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4 For you will break the yoke of their slavery
and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders.
You will break the oppressor’s rod,
just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian.
Jeremiah 28:10
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10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off Jeremiah’s neck and broke it in pieces.
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Jeremiah 28:13
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13 “Go and tell Hananiah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but you have replaced it with a yoke of iron.
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Jeremiah 27:7
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7 All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his time is up. Then many nations and great kings will conquer and rule over Babylon.
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Jeremiah 25:14
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14 Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
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Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you
and tore away the chains of your slavery,
but still you said,
‘I will not serve you.’
On every hill and under every green tree,
you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.
Isaiah 14:25
New Living Translation
25 I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel;
I will trample them on my mountains.
My people will no longer be their slaves
nor bow down under their heavy loads.
Isaiah 10:27
New Living Translation
27 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.[a]
Footnotes
- 10:27 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads The yoke will be broken, / for you have grown so fat.
Jeremiah 28:4
New Living Translation
4 And I will bring back Jehoiachin[a] son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the other captives that were taken to Babylon. I will surely break the yoke that the king of Babylon has put on your necks. I, the Lord, have spoken!’”
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- 28:4 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant spelling of Jehoiachin.
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