Isaiah 9:4

New Living Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 27:40

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you decide to break free, you will shake his yoke from your neck.”

Psalm 125:3

The wicked will not rule the land of the godly, for then the godly might be tempted to do wrong.

Psalm 81:6

“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops, and a flaming fire will consume its glory.

Isaiah 10:5

“What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. I use it as a club to express my anger.

Isaiah 14:25

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 16:4

Let our refugees stay among you. Hide them from our enemies until the terror is past.” When oppression and destruction have ended and enemy raiders have disappeared,

Isaiah 47:6

For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly.

Isaiah 49:26

I will feed your enemies with their own flesh. They will be drunk with rivers of their own blood. All the world will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel.”

Isaiah 51:13

Yet you have forgotten the Lord, your Creator, the one who stretched out the sky like a canopy and laid the foundations of the earth. Will you remain in constant dread of human oppressors? Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies? Where is their fury and anger now? It is gone!

Isaiah 52:2

Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem. Sit in a place of honor. Remove the chains of slavery from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 54:14

You will be secure under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away. You will live in peace, and terror will not come near.

Isaiah 9:5

The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. They will be fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 30:8

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.

Jeremiah 48:17

You friends of Moab, weep for him and cry! See how the strong scepter is broken, how the beautiful staff is shattered!

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.

Nahum 1:13

Now I will break the yoke of bondage from your neck and tear off the chains of Assyrian oppression.”