KJV King James Version
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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Nahum 1:13
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
WEB World English Bible
Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
ASV American Standard Version
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And now I break his rod from off thee, And thy bands I do draw away.
Surrounding context — Nahum 1
10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
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Cross-references
Isaiah 10:27And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.Isaiah 9:4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.Psalm 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.Isaiah 14:25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.Micah 5:5-6And this [man] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
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