¹³ Now I will break their yoke^(A) from your neck
    and tear your shackles away.”^(B)

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]

⁴ 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)

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)

²⁵ I will crush the Assyrian^(A) in my land;
    on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke^(B) will be taken from my people,
    and his burden removed from their shoulders.^(C)”

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness,^(A) the utter darkness,^(B)
    and broke away their chains.^(C)

⁵ 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)

⁵ And he will be our peace^(A)
    when the Assyrians invade^(B) our land
    and march through our fortresses.
We will raise against them seven shepherds,
    even eight commanders,^(C)
6 who will rule^[a] the land of Assyria with the sword,
    the land of Nimrod^(D) with drawn sword.^[b](E)
He will deliver us from the Assyrians
    when they invade our land
    and march across our borders.^(F)