Isaiah 9:4

New American Bible - revised edition

For every boot that tramped in battle, every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned as fuel for fire.

Cross References

Genesis 27:40

By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; But when you become restless, you will throw off his yoke from your neck.”

Psalm 125:3

The scepter of the wicked will not prevail in the land allotted to the just, Lest the just themselves turn their hands to evil.

Psalm 81:6

He made it a decree for Joseph when he came out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones, And under his glory there will be a kindling like the kindling of fire.

Isaiah 10:5

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger.

Isaiah 14:25

To break the Assyrian in my land and trample him on my mountains; Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden from their shoulder.

Isaiah 16:4

Let the outcasts of Moab live with you, be their shelter from the destroyer. When there is an end to the oppressor, when destruction has ceased, and the marauders have vanished from the land,

Isaiah 47:6

Angry at my people, I profaned my heritage And gave them into your power; but you showed them no mercy; Upon the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as though with new wine. All flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your savior, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 51:13

And forget the Lord, your maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of earth? All the day you are in constant dread of the fury of the oppressor When he prepares himself to destroy; but where is the oppressor’s fury?

Isaiah 52:2

Arise, shake off the dust, sit enthroned, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, captive daughter Zion!

Isaiah 54:14

In justice shall you be established, far from oppression, you shall not fear, from destruction, it cannot come near.

Isaiah 9:5

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 30:8

On that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts—I will break his yoke off your neck and snap your bonds. Strangers shall no longer enslave them;

Jeremiah 48:17

Mourn, all you neighbors, all you who know its name! Say: How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff!

Leviticus 26:13

I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect. The Punishment of Disobedience.

Nahum 1:13

Now I will break his yoke off of you, and tear off your bonds.