Isaiah 9:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

Cross References

Genesis 27:40

By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

Psalm 125:3

For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

Psalm 81:6

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

Isaiah 10:16

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

Isaiah 10:5

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Isaiah 14:25

To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

Isaiah 16:4

Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

Isaiah 49:26

And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

Isaiah 51:13

And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

Isaiah 52:2

Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 54:14

All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

Isaiah 9:5

For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.

Jeremiah 30:8

For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

Jeremiah 48:17

All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.

Nahum 1:13

And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.