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The Burden against Nineveh

Nahum 1:13

In 11 translations

BSB
For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
KJV
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
WEB
Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
ASV
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
LSV
And now I break his rod from off you, || And your bands I draw away.”
YLT
And now I break his rod from off thee, And thy bands I do draw away.
DBY
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.
DRC
And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.
GNV
For nowe I will breake his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
JPS
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
LXXE
And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ νῦν συντρίψω τὴν ῥάβδον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ σοῦ, καὶ τοὺς δεσμοὺς διαῤῥήξω.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 10:27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
  • Isaiah 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
  • Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  • Psalms 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
  • Isaiah 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
  • Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  • Micah 5:5–6And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men. And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land…

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