Jeremiah 30:8
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
- KJV
- For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
- WEB
- It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
- ASV
- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;
- DARBY
- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude.
- BLB
- And it will come to pass on that day, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts—[that] I will break his yoke from your neck, and your bonds I will burst, and no longer will strangers enslave him.
- ÅB
- Og det skal skje på den dag, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, da vil jeg bryte hans[^1] åk og ta det av din nakke, og dine bånd vil jeg rive i stykker, og fremmede skal ikke mere holde deg som slave.
- OTB
- ‘På den dagen,’ erklærer Herren, hærskarenes Gud, ‘vil jeg bryte åket fra deres nakker og rive av deres bånd; fremmede skal ikke lenger gjøre dem til slaver.
- B1930
- Og det skal skje på den dag, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, da vil jeg bryte hans åk og ta det av din nakke, og dine bånd vil jeg rive i stykker, og fremmede skal ikke mere holde dig i trældom. / < fiendens.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nahum 1:13
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
Read in contextEzekiel 34:27
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
Read in contextIsaiah 9:4
For 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 28:10
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
Read in contextJeremiah 27:2
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
Read in contextIsaiah 10:27
And 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:25
That 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.
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