13 I am the Lord your God,(A) who brought you out of Egypt(B) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(C) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Read full chapter

For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,(A)
    you have shattered(B)
the yoke(C) that burdens them,
    the bar across their shoulders,(D)
    the rod of their oppressor.(E)

Read full chapter

27 In that day(A) their burden(B) will be lifted from your shoulders,
    their yoke(C) from your neck;(D)
the yoke(E) will be broken
    because you have grown so fat.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(A)
    and tore off your bonds;(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(C)
Indeed, on every high hill(D)
    and under every spreading tree(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(F)

Read full chapter

So I will go to the leaders(A)
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
    and torn off the bonds.(B)

Read full chapter

“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke(A) of the king of Babylon.

Read full chapter

I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin[a](A) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 28:4 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin

The False Prophet Hananiah

28 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah(A) king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon,(B) said to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people:

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends