Isaiah 9:4

The Passion Translation

For you have broken the chains that have bound your people and lifted off the heavy bar across their shoulders, the rod the oppressor used against them. You have shattered all their bondage, just as you did when Midian’s armies were defeated.

Cross References

Genesis 27:40

You will live by the sword and serve your brother; but when you grow restless, you will break free from his control.”

Psalm 125:3

The wicked will not always rule over the godly, provoking them to do what is evil.

Psalm 81:6

“I have removed your backbreaking burdens and have freed your hands from the hard labor and toil.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore, the sovereign Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, will send a devastating plague among Assyria’s proud warriors. Yes, the “glory” of Assyria will be burned and go up in smoke!

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to arrogant Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club I place in the king’s hand is my fury.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrians who invade my land. I will trample them on my mountains. Their yoke of slavery will be removed from my people and their heavy burden from their shoulders.

Isaiah 16:4

Allow the Moabite fugitives to stay with you. Be a shelter for them from the destroyer!” One day the oppressor will be no more. The destroyer will come to an end, and the tyrant will vanish from the land.

Isaiah 47:6

I became angry with my people, so I wounded my special ones. I handed them over to you, and you took them captive. You showed them no mercy; you even made the elderly suffer under your heavy yoke.

Isaiah 49:26

I will cause the violence of your oppressors to come back upon them, and your enemies will kill one another in a killing frenzy! Then all the earth will know that I am Yahweh, your Savior, your Kinsman-Redeemer, the mighty hero of Jacob’s tribes.”

Isaiah 51:13

You have forgotten that Yahweh, your Maker, stretched out the skies and laid earth’s firm foundation. But you live each day constantly worrying, living in fear of your angry oppressor who is bent on your destruction. But their fury cannot touch you!

Isaiah 52:2

Arise and shake off your dust! Sit enthroned, Jerusalem! Break off your shackles of bondage from your neck, you captive daughter of Zion!

Isaiah 54:14

You will be established in righteousness. Oppression—be far from you! Fear—be far from you! Yes, terror will not come near you, nor will you be afraid.

Isaiah 9:5

Every boot of marching troops and every uniform caked with blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 30:8

“In that day,” declares Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, “I will break off the yoke from your neck and snap your chains, and foreigners will no longer enslave you.

Jeremiah 48:17

Grieve for her, all you neighboring countries and all you who know her fame. How shattered is its rule, that mighty rod, that splendid scepter!